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007stuart 28-10-2014 17:56

Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
Today I picked up a freebie at an exhibition which looked like a credit card but was actually a 4gb usb drive. I tried it today and a pop up box appeared with an option to use the drive as additional RAM. So I thought nothing ventured nothing gained and now I must admit I was very sceptical however ReadyBoost has really helped my 5yr Acer laptop and now everything seems to run quicker.

Does anyone else use this?

Taf 28-10-2014 18:04

Re: Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
I tried it with standard USB sticks and found they slowed everything down. But then I tried a high speed type and things improved a lot. A lot faster than relying on Virtual Memory on the Hard Drive.

Matth 28-10-2014 20:02

Re: Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
The less RAM you have, the more readyboost helps - once RAM is plentiful, then the overhead of managing readyboost may exceed the benefit.

I readyboosted a 1GB RAM netbook, but stopped using readyboost after upping the RAM to 2GB

qasdfdsaq 29-10-2014 02:42

Re: Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
This feature has been around for seven years, and yes it was useful last decade but has been removed now because it's mostly pointless on modern machines.

Stop It 29-10-2014 09:45

Re: Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
Readyboost certainly had a use, for Netbooks and low end systems but for anything resembling a decent system it didn't do much.

I did play with for a while but as my system was certainly not low end it just made things slower. I currently have 16GB of RAM so barely need a pagefile, let alone this but keep the idea in my head if helping people with old systems.

qasdfdsaq 29-10-2014 13:20

Re: Winxdows ReadyBoost
 
Yeah it's also largely dependent on the USB drive's read and write speeds, if they're slower than your HDD it doesn't help. Hence Microsoft built-in to Windows a function to speedtest every USB stick you connect before allowing it to be used for ReadyBoost, but even then the standards were fairly low, only 2.5MB/sec.

Although high-end modern USB drives can reach hundreds of megabytes per second, they cost several times more than an equally sized and faster SSD anyway.


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