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Re: Readyboost
yeah ok, MVP's are not really 100% alive.
they are un-dead or brain dead (there are some exceptions in other
newsgroups but no good ones in this newsgroup). Dont mention them as a good
example!
"MICHAEL" <u158627_emr2@dslr.net> wrote in message
news:O0saYTsyHHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
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> * Mike Brannigan:
>> "Jurij" <jurijvi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:E6D45015-A73E-4650-8702-EFA8E97A26BD@microsoft.com...
>>> Hello all,
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>>> I was intrigued by the Readyboost feature, but I presume it's more
>>> effective on
>>> "resource limited" systems?
>>>
>>> Regards
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> My findings are about the same on three different Vista machines.
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> -Michael
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