Ron Miller

Lakesidezx wrote:
> And I forgot to mention that I have the PNY attache 1GB thumb drive and
> it works with readyboost but I dont think I actually benefit anything
> from it since it's only 1/3rd of the total amount of ram that I have in
> my computer.

ReadyBoost is probably most useful in laptops where it can prevent some
disk thrashing which, in turn, prolongs battery life. The increase in
performance in a desktop would be harder to discern, but it's certainly
there, even if it's only 1/3 of total memory. The more important
comparison would seem to be to the size of your swap file -- i.e., what
percentage of the swap file could be mirrored to the thumb drive and
therefore avoid the head-seek delay inherent in picking bits and bytes
from the swap file on the HD.