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Right, a quick question about this, since I've been thinking. When I plug in my external hard drive, it offers to use it as a readyboost thingy for vista, giving lots more ram. I've just been reading up on this, and apparently you can give up to 4Gb of extra ram like this. Since the drive is always plugged in anyway, and is only used for storage (Its full of anime and TV shows) is there any reason not to make it readyboost as well? Would I still be able to access it with RB turned on? And while the performance increase may not be too much, it would still be a boost for free.
Its a Usb2.0 drive, I think its Western Digital but rebranded by 'Element' if that helps. 2Gb system ram at the moment, which gets maxed out my Supreme Commander, among other games.
 
Aye, but its more the fact that its just sitting there doing (For most of the time) nothing. May as well get some extra (albeit slower) ram out there for free.

And when I plug the drive in, vista does ask me if I want to readyboost it. Not clicked it though, in case it would want to format it, or wouldn't let me access the drive while its being used like this.
 
Aah, thats answered my questions. A hard drive will most likely be too slow, and I rarely reboot my PC anyway, so there's no point.

Thanks for all your help :)
 
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