Vista's ReadyBoost

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XPSMan159

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Has anyone had a chance to try Vista's Readyboost. It's where you use a usb flash drive and the computer uses it as extra RAM. I want to know how it works and does it help at all??
 
So adding a 1gb+ memory stick to vista, would use that as ram?

Would that 1gb stick go to waste, meaning have to have a program on there or is it just an empty 1gb.

And can I use it for vista readyboost, then use it as a flash drive?

But delete the stuff, if needed.

Thanks
 
IIRC you need no programs on your flash drive to run ReadyBoost, and yes you can use your drive as storage again afterwards, you can probably even keep files stored on there whilst you use ReadyBoost, Windows should just allocate the remaining drive space.
 
And i hope YOU were being sarcastic.

The fastest flash drives on the market top out at just under 20MB/s, opposed to modern hard drives that can reach speeds of 90-100MB/s, and modest 667 memory can transfer data @ 5,336 MB/s.

"readyboost" is crap. I don't know what kind of stunt microsoft's trying to pull.
 
heyman421 said:
And i hope YOU were being sarcastic.

The fastest flash drives on the market top out at just under 20MB/s, opposed to modern hard drives that can reach speeds of 90-100MB/s, and modest 667 memory can transfer data @ 5,336 MB/s.

"readyboost" is crap. I don't know what kind of stunt microsoft's trying to pull.
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Ya I know. I was being sarcastic to. I would never use readyboost its just like you said it is to slow.
 
I mean, it might make sense for a laptop, so you're less dependant on hard disk activity which consumes battery power

but i wouldn't expect any speed boost...
 
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