Vista RAM information please

[Dr. Heywood Floyd]

<quote>
Windows ReadyBoost lets users use a removable flash memory device, such
as a USB thumb drive, to improve system performance without opening the box.
<?quote>

Can someone point me to any reading material on the above quote? Or,
maybe, explain the hows here?

Thanks

 

[Jeff]

Right from the Vista site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/performance.mspx

Jeff

 

[Jeff]

Or,
Pick anyone of these, on this page, one's a powerpoint presentation;

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=readyboost

Jeff

 

[Tim Draper]

<quote>
Windows ReadyBoost lets users use a removable flash memory device, such
as a USB thumb drive, to improve system performance without opening the
box.
<?quote>

Can someone point me to any reading material on the above quote? Or,
maybe, explain the hows here?

Thanks

to be honest, a pendrive can only do about 15-20mb/sec MAX. and thats
read speed. write speed will be slower.
i cant see how this would speed up vista since any HDD's that are newer
than about 2-3yrs old is well capable of 35mb/s+.
all it is will be like the page file.

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

to be honest, a pendrive can only do about 15-20mb/sec MAX. and thats read
speed. write speed will be slower.
i cant see how this would speed up vista since any HDD's that are newer
than about 2-3yrs old is well capable of 35mb/s+.
all it is will be like the page file.

Tim,

You are talking about sequental read/write speed, while paging operations
are mostly small random r/w's. In this case, flash can be 10x faster than
HDD. If ReadyBoost detects large sequental read/write, it serves it from
HDD.

Here, a couple of links for ya with more info on topic:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429

 

[Tim Draper]

Tim,

You are talking about sequental read/write speed, while paging
operations are mostly small random r/w's. In this case, flash can be 10x
faster than HDD. If ReadyBoost detects large sequental read/write, it
serves it from HDD.

Here, a couple of links for ya with more info on topic:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429

ty for the info alex
/me runs off to read.

tim