Getting Ready For Vista - Does ReadyBoost Work?

January 16th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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Tags: flash, gHacks, Modding, PC Modding, Vista, Windows

I’m almost ready for upgrading to Vista.  My new mobo arrives tomorrow and I was just about to buy some flash memory to take advantage of ReadyBoost.  If you haven’t come across Vista ReadyBoost, gHacks explains it best:

ReadyBoost is a new disk caching technique in Windows Vista which uses flash memory from flash devices to boost system performance. Caching system resources for small, random I/Os in flash ram is faster than caching them on one of your hard drives which speeds up certain disk reads by the factor 8-10.

Does anyone have experience of whether or not this works, before I whip out the credit card?  I know what’s probably going to happen, is I’ll spend my cash anyway.

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1. #1
   

   Comment by NLP Master on 22 August 2007:

   I tried Vista with the most powerful flash drives. ReadyBoost didn’t work in real world- no noticeable speed boosts.

   Sometimes, it even hung!
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   Comment by jacob on 17 November 2007:

   i have 1 gig ddr2 533mhz ram installed. i bought a 4gig readyboost enabled usb [a sandisk cruzer micro, of which i had to remove that absolute pain in the a*** software U3 Smart]

   i plugged it in, it asked me if i wanted to use it for readyboost and the moment i chose that everything happened about 3 times faster

   very happy, it makes logging in reduce from about 5 mins to less than 1. [i like the sidebar etc etc]
3. #3
   

   Comment by ReadyBoost on 13 January 2008:

   You can find a list of readyboost compatible memory here: http://www.readyboostmemory.com/

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