ReadyBoost

Kezmo said:
It's used instead of harddrive access.
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Yea I never disputed that fella, its used when there is a lack of system resources generally ram though, a 256mb stick of usb flash memory couldnt replace an 80gb hard disk though, its an aid not a replacement if you see what I mean.
 
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brendy said:
Yea I never disputed that fella, its used when there is a lack of system resources generally ram though, a 256mb stick of usb flash memory couldnt replace an 80gb hard disk though, its an aid not a replacement if you see what I mean.
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Not really - its more a replacement (or lets say 'disk' cache) for the need for the Windows swapfile to reside on the HD.

It was never meant to replace the HD or the storage it provides but how part of it is used in normal day-to-day Windows usage...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Craig321 said:
ReadyBoost is used instead of using your hard drive. So it avoids copying etc. being slow when paging.
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It's used as well as the hard drive - Vista checks to see if the ReadyBoost device is still available and if so, uses that rather than the slower hard drive. The hard drive still contains the 'master' copy if you like.

I wonder what will happen if solid state drives take off during the life of Vista... will Vista work out which is faster and give precedence to that, or will it actually become slower by default if you have a ReadyBoost enabled device present?
 
Using the 512mb corsair voyager drive for a month now,

Since my pc is only a MCE one, I can't say i've noticed any serious perf increases tbh. but the drive was only 8 quid so what the hell.

Toms hardware did some benchies and most improvement was on pcs with 512mb and 1gb of ram.

sid
 
sid said:
Using the 512mb corsair voyager drive for a month now,

Since my pc is only a MCE one, I can't say i've noticed any serious perf increases tbh. but the drive was only 8 quid so what the hell.

Toms hardware did some benchies and most improvement was on pcs with 512mb and 1gb of ram.

sid
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I'm going to be buying a 4GB flash drive for college soon, so I thought I may as well buy a ReadyBoost compatible one... even if it doesn't make much difference :)
 
Craig321 said:
I'm going to be buying a 4GB flash drive for college soon, so I thought I may as well buy a ReadyBoost compatible one... even if it doesn't make much difference :)
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using ReadyBoost does improve the performance..
 
Craig321 said:
Yea, but some people have been saying not much difference... ?
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Got to take into account what stick each person is using & if they already a have a fast hard drive raid 0 setup.

I ain't played any games yet or rebooted with the stick so i will see if it helps load times later on my setup.

So far tho hard drive accesses seems to have come down.
 
Final8y said:
Got to take into account what stick each person is using & if they already a have a fast hard drive raid 0 setup.

I ain't played any games yet or rebooted with the stick so i will see if it helps load times later on my setup.

So far tho hard drive accesses seems to have come down.
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i have a raid 0 setup on 1 hdd and i still see an improve performance using readyboot
 
Can anyone actually substantiate these claims with figures, my hp notebook nc6230 (centrino duo t5600 1gb ram 80gb sata hdd)and i couldnt see any difference with a 1gb disgo stick of flash memory.
Maybe its the "ive bought one so it works" improvement.
 
BF2142 maps loads quicker im getting on the maps near first & seeing waiting for
6 more players before starting even tho the last map was packed out to the max.
 
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