ReadyBoost usability

[John Sinks]

Yes, but if you have an extra flash drive laying around not doing anything
might as well let it be useful in some way.

John

 

[John Barnett MVP]

with 1.5GB of RAM the extra flash drive would not be productive. I cannot
see any further performance enhancement so i may as well use it for data
instead.

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[Guest]

Hey all, rather than causing MORE pain to yourself, just save up and buy
proper memory!!

 

[John Barnes]

Much faster using ram instead of this approach

 

[Simon Berube]

Now let's say you have 4x1Gb modules and top it off with a 4Gb Readyboost
drive, wouldn't that be even better?

 

[John Barnes]

Maybe. Two considerations. Is your system ever maxing out on ram (check
Task Manager or Performance Monitor). Readyboost will speed up anything
that Vista writes to virtual memory and would be faster. Vista writes to
the pagefile regardless of how much memory you have.

 

[Steve Thackery]

Vista writes to the pagefile regardless of how much memory you have.

Yes, exactly. ReadyBoost speeds up page file transactions, and they always
occur, even with 4G of RAM. However, they occur much less frequently with
large amounts of RAM, so the gains are smaller.

Thack

 

[John Barnes]

Agreed

Yes, exactly. ReadyBoost speeds up page file transactions, and they
always occur, even with 4G of RAM. However, they occur much less
frequently with large amounts of RAM, so the gains are smaller.

Thack