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Re: Readyboost
* Mike Brannigan:
> "Jurij" <jurijvi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:E6D45015-A73E-4650-8702-EFA8E97A26BD@microsoft.com...
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was intrigued by the Readyboost feature, but I presume it's more
>> effective on
>> "resource limited" systems?
>>
>> Regards
>
> No - ReadyBoost helps the performance of all systems as acting as a faster
> write through caching area to the hard drive.
> So even on systems with plenty of memory where there is any writing to disk
> and then potentially reading that data back in (after it may have been
> flushed from memory) then the use of the ReadyBoost cache is faster then the
> access to disk.
Your real-world experience seems to differ from mine and *many*
others, including a lot of MVPs. Perhaps, you are used to quoting
what Readyboost is supposed to do, but most of the comments
in this forum- now and since the betas- ReadyBoost has *not* provided
any noticeable improvement on machines that have over 1.5 GB of Ram.
The only times I have noticed a *little* bit of help from ReadyBoost is
when I run virtual machines. There have also been a few sites that have run
some tests on ReadyBoost, most of it's not very flattering. About the
only time ReadyBoost shows any *noticeable* improvement are in
system with a Gig or less of Ram.
My findings are about the same on three different Vista machines.
-Michael
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