Ready Boost on win 7 any good?

David_Vaughton · 26 Jun 2012 at 20:51

Hi all,

I have a old system I have just refurbed, will using ready boost on windows 7 make any difference to performance? i have a few spare high speed 4gb usb sticks.

many thanks in advance for your input.

System details

Fujitsu ESPRIMO
Intel Core 2 E6550
4GB RAM
x2 400 GB Sata2 HD's
Win 7 Ult 64bit

Philtor · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:50

Can't see it making much difference with 4GB of RAM installed tbh. Always worth a try mind

Zarf · 28 Jun 2012 at 00:01

Better than nothing, but won't hold a candle to a proper SSD. If i was you i'd pick up a cheap 64GB drive (£40?) instead.

robbalmbra · 28 Jun 2012 at 00:47

Ive never used it, but some people over the net find it does make a difference.

marms · 28 Jun 2012 at 06:43

I've got a system using a 5400rpm laptop drive and a 16GB flash drive for readyboost and it makes a big difference. It has nothing to do with the amount of ram, it stores all the small files that'd take a long time to load on a drive with slow access times. It'll take a few days to see the full benefits as it needs to get all the files onto the drive as you use the computer over fime.

jamesfreddie · 28 Jun 2012 at 07:25

Before I had my SSD I used readyboost and I really noticed it.

David_Vaughton · 29 Jun 2012 at 11:35

Thanks for the feedback I will give a try and report back

silversurfer · 29 Jun 2012 at 15:46

probably helps more with a fragmented and/or slow drive seek time. If you have ssd it wont as its slower

juno_first · 1 Jul 2012 at 12:21

How do you enable ready boost on a ssd as my laptop gives an error message that the system disk performance is too high. Does that mean there is no point to ready boost with an ssd then?

Kotu · 1 Jul 2012 at 13:05

the fastest usb3 flash drives are probably still slower than the slowest sata2 ssds so there isn't much point.

Rroff · 1 Jul 2012 at 13:07

I've been using it on my 4GB laptop (7200RPM mechanical HDD) and tbh the difference is minor - a few apps, especially those that load up a ton of plugins on starting, are a bit quicker starting up but thats about it.

SeraphX · 1 Jul 2012 at 13:31

juno_first said:
How do you enable ready boost on a ssd as my laptop gives an error message that the system disk performance is too high. Does that mean there is no point to ready boost with an ssd then?

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