Ready boost capable?

[Guest]

I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech at
Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his shoulders
and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got the
message, "This devise does not have the required performance characteristics
for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and then
re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears. How
do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Open Windows Explorer, right click the USB drive and select the Ready Boost
tab. You should see a use this drive option and slider to set the amount of
space to reserve on the drive for RB.

 

[Rock]

I just bought a Memorex 2 GB mini travel drive - USB 2.0. I asked the tech
at
Best Buy if it would work with ReadyBoost, and he just shrugged his
shoulders
and said, I dunno. Plugged it in (I have Vista Home Premium) and I got the
message, "This devise does not have the required performance
characteristics
for use in speeding up your system." Clicked to have it re-test, and then
re-booted the system. left it in the USB port. Now, when I click on the
drive, it shows a ready boost icon, and that message no longer appears.
How
do i know if this thing is working with ready Boost or not?

Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Go to Start | type in
Reliability. Click on the link that appears at the top left. When opened,
expand the disk section section and look for writes to
X:\Readyboost.sfcache
Where X: is the drive letter assigned to the readyboost drive.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/04/14/576548.aspx

 

[Lang Murphy]

Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Go to Start | type in
Reliability. Click on the link that appears at the top left. When
opened, expand the disk section section and look for writes to
X:\Readyboost.sfcache
Where X: is the drive letter assigned to the readyboost drive.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/04/14/576548.aspx

Hey Rock... pretty cool. Admittedly, I'm not sure how the numbers relate to
system performance; I've got 2GB's RAM and am using 980K on the flash drive
for RB and it's using RB pretty much all the time. Thanks for posting this!

Lang