Will ReadyBoost do anything for me?

[Ernie Lane]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

 

[Malke]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

I don't ever think having a usb thumbdrive is a waste of money since they
are so useful. Now that they're so cheap, it isn't a big investment. I just
bought a 4GB Kingston for $16.99 at NewEgg. Granted, that's a sale price
but even at full prices the thumbdrives are very reasonable.

That doesn't answer your question as to whether it will help you. Really,
the only way to find out is for you to try it because each machine is
different. When I only had 512MB on my Vista testbed, the ReadyBoost really
made a difference. With 1.5MB, I didn't see much difference with the
thumbdrive attached but then I don't use Vista for real daily work. So I'm
afraid the answer is that it depends on you and your machine.

Malke

 

[PotsOn]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

Well you've already wasted your money on Vista, so what's the big deal of
wasting somemore on a USB drive?

Cheers.

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[MyronH]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

Overall, if you're not using your HDD swap space on a consistent basis, it
won't really do anything for you. For the most part, you won't be using all
of the 2GB of system memory and therefore probably don't need ReadyBoost.
However, if you are running a lot of applications simultaneously and are
using the HDD swap consistently, then you can probably gain some benefit from
ReadyBoost.

 

[Charlie42]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM.
Will ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared
away already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

In my experience, ReadyBoost offers a significant performance increase only
when a machine barely meets Vista hardware requirements, and/or when system
resources are stretched to their very limits.

Adding 1GB of ReadyBoost memory to a 1GB RAM Vista computer makes sense, but
in your case you already have 2GB. Unless you run applications with huge
footprints and/or have a lot of apps and big files up and running
simultaneously, I doubt you will notice much, if any, difference.

Keep in mind that not all memory devices perform equally fast with
ReadyBoost. Should you decide to dedicate a device to ReadyBoost, a memory
card may perform better than a USB stick, but then again if you are
obtaining a device solely for use as memory, you may as well buy more RAM.
It is dirt cheap these days.

Charlie42

 

[Frank]

Ernie Lane wrote:




Well you've already wasted your money on Vista, so what's the big deal of
wasting somemore on a USB drive?

Cheers.

Tell us why you're here old man? You don't have Vista and you hate all
things MS. You're nothing but a lying linux troll, right?
Frank

 

[John Barnett MVP]

By all means by a 2 or 4GB USB drive for its original purpose - backing up
files. Personally I have never found Ready Boost of much value unless, as
Malke pointed out, you are using it on a machine with only 512MB RAM. Once
you start increasing your RAM the Ready boost performance hype is rarely
noticeable. I am running a Intel Core2 duo machine (2.20GHz) with 2GB of RAM
and even when using Adobe Photoshop I am only using around 50 to 60% of my
memory allocation. As I am typing this reply my RAM usage stats are
displaying 42% memory usage.

I wouldn't say you were wasting money buying the USB drive, but I certainly
wouldn't be putting it to use as a Ready Boost drive.

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[Frank]

I suggest you get another stick of 2 gigs instead of a flash drive for
readyboost, and to TURN OFF (disable) THAT CRAP SERVICE= readyboost,

ram is cheap... and readyboost is stupid.

More RAM is good but turning off ReadyBoost is a dumb, stupid idea.
You need to stop posting incorrect information cc.
Frank

 

[Frank]

why franky boy, if you are not using that stupid service why have it runing
in the background???

showing da ignorance again franky boy huh?

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I see you have no idea what ReadyBoost is about do you?
Is that just one of the reason why you can't get you one little install
of Vista to run properly?
Try google...LOL!
Frank

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

My Vista computer also has 2GB of RAM, and my experience with
ReadyBoost is that it did nothing for me that I could notice.

But thumb drives are generally useful for other things, so you might
want to get one and try it for ReadyBoost. If ReadyBoost doesn't
improve performance, you won't have wasted your money, since the drive
will still be useful for other things (backup, transporting data,
etc.).

 

[Frank]

I know what it is you overgrown baboon!

Oh? Did you try google as I recommended?

Its you that have absolutely no technical knowledge and it shows so clearly
that you are just making a fool of yourself!

hehehe...try harder you moron!
Frank