Dustin Harper wrote:
> What ReadyBoost does is that it puts your pagefile onto the flashdrive
> as it is faster than your HD. It does work pretty good, depending on how
> much RAM you have. If your PC hits the HD a lot for paging (usually for
> 1GB of system RAM or less) then you will notice a difference. If you
> have 2GB or more then you probably wouldn't notice much of a difference.
>
> It does work great, though!
>
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
>
> boe wrote:
>> I've seen a few items about people using flash drives to speed up
>> performance in Vista. Anyone have any experience with that? Was
>> there a noticeable difference? What happens if you remove the
>> drive. Any good articles on configurations like this?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
I hope Dustin won't mind my add-on. I think ReadyBoost is most helpful
for laptops. In this scenario, by preventing some disk thrashing as
data is read from and written to the pagefile, ReadyBoost can prolong
battery life.
Performance enhancement always occurs with ReadyBoost, but in my
experience, it's too subtle to be easily discernible by the average user
(which I am).