USB Speed up

andicole0 · 5 Apr 2015 at 17:51

Does sticking a USB memory stick in a Windows PC and saying 'yes' to 'speed up my PC?' actually work?

Andi.

Rroff · 5 Apr 2015 at 17:58

You mean readyboost?

It can help a bit on older systems with limited amounts of physical memory and/or slow old mechanical HDDs, thats about it, if you have an SSD and plenty of RAM it won't provide any benefits.

Burnsy2023 · 5 Apr 2015 at 19:12

As above. Readyboost was a stop gap technology for when SSDs were still unaffordable to the masses. It's essentially USB flash caching (which is limited by usually USB2 bandwidth).

andicole0 · 5 Apr 2015 at 21:17

Thanks guys I thought that was the case.

Andi.

bledd · 6 Apr 2015 at 10:45

Buy an SSD, it's borderline illegal not to run one as your OS drive..

Best upgrade ever!

Sliver · 6 Apr 2015 at 10:56

bledd. said:
Buy an SSD, it's borderline illegal not to run one as your OS drive..

Best upgrade ever!

Indeed. People without SSD's in today's world are heathens. Pick one up at OCUK and then women will worship you.

bledd · 6 Apr 2015 at 11:14

^True