Ready Boost Flash Drive 4 gb from 8 gb Drive

J

Joel

Hello,
I am using Vista 64 Home Premium with 8 gb ddr2 ram. I use an 8 gb flash
drive formatted NTSF. The Readyboost cash is limitted to 4090 bytes. Why?
Should I be able to use the full 8 gb?
 
M

Mike Hall - MVP

Joel said:
Hello,
I am using Vista 64 Home Premium with 8 gb ddr2 ram. I use an 8 gb flash
drive formatted NTSF. The Readyboost cash is limitted to 4090 bytes.
Why?
Should I be able to use the full 8 gb?
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Readyboost is aimed at systems which have a 1gb or less RAM, so you are
wasting a flash drive using it to boost an 8gb system..


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R

Rob

I have 8gb ram, and can confirm that using 4gb ready drive DOES give a small boost that is most
noticeable when file managing (icons are there quicker) and browsing net with history and other
such stuff. As far as anything major goes, loading games, video rendering etc, very little if
any difference.
Mike Hall - MVP said:
Readyboost is aimed at systems which have a 1gb or less RAM, so you are wasting a flash drive
using it to boost an 8gb system..


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J

Joel

Hello,
Thanks motarola2, Rick and Mike,
I believe there is a slight improvement opening programs. I was hoping to
follow the guidelines of 1 to 1.5 times the ram amount in you pc. So,
regardless of 32 or 64 bit operating systems, the 4gb limit is the same. Too
bad there is not a way around this limit.
 
H

husky86

While I realize that the following question depends upon nothing more than
pure speculation, I thought I would ask anyway:

Any chance that future service packs for Windows Vista will include changes
to the 4 GB limitation on ReadyBoost? Possibly boosting its capacity to 8 GB
or perhaps even 12 GB?
 
P

Paul Montgomery

While I realize that the following question depends upon nothing more than
pure speculation, I thought I would ask anyway:

Any chance that future service packs for Windows Vista will include changes
to the 4 GB limitation on ReadyBoost? Possibly boosting its capacity to 8 GB
or perhaps even 12 GB?
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Why should they?

Most people don't think Readyboost even lives up to its current touted
potential.
 
M

Malke

shortmantuff said:
What are you talking about by leech post Peter?
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I'm not Peter and you already got answers to your issue, but here is what
Peter meant by "leech post":

You are not posting on a real forum as you think you are. You are using a
web interface that leeches Usenet posts and most of the rest of us are
using real newsreaders. We don't see what you do. If you want to
participate in Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is
very easy to do and I'll give you information about that below. If you
prefer to use a forum, then here are two excellent ones:

http://forum.aumha.org/index.php
http://http://computerhaven.info/

Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really
a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use
a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use
Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it.
Here are some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation
of newsgroups

Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm

How to Post:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question
http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on
Usenet


http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working
properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird

Malke
 
P

Peter Foldes

And do you see the other posts that he is replying to. I doubt it very much. Useless
to answer in my opinion when you do not see what has been posted for his issues
somewhere else and he is answering to nothing
 

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