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Re: Readyboost
I will try an experiment and see....
How much faster is a USB2.0 flashdrive data transfer in comparison with a
hard drive disk? Any numbers?
"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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carl
Opening a File or Application is noticeable faster from the cahe of
ReadyBoost than the Hard Drive. This I have seen on machines with 1gig of
Ram as well as 4 Gigs of Ram
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"carl feredeck" <carlferedeck@wizzmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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!
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> "MICHAEL" <u158627_emr2@dslr.net> wrote in message
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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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