Vista ready boost? how does it work?

Lysander said:
Sounds like a load of hogwash to me. Just another way to spend money for a trivial performance boost.
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It would seem to me that buying more RAM might be of more benefit. ReadyBoost just acts as a write through cache, as far as I understand it. That way if you yank it out, it can still read off the HDD.
 
unless you have already got a usb flash drive to hand thats readyboost compatible..vista will let you know if it isnt !
ive got a datawrite 4gb and its working fine, also, i can change how much i want to use for readyboost and for file storage so i get the best of both worlds.
however, the only problem i have is that i cant boot from my sata drive with it connected as my bios doesnt see the sata drive,tells me theres no op sys to boot from , although i can still get to boot xp/vista once i remove it.
...this isnt a readyboost prob though, it wont boot if theres any external drive switched on.

dunno why.
answers on a postcard please.
 
tntcoder said:
Is USB Virtual memory faster that say VM on a fast SATA HDD?
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Yes - access times are around 0ms. Only quick bit is the SATA Cache = 8Mb. USB Flash = Up to 4Gb.

HDDs are to be replaced with HHDs - Hybrid Hard Drives - these will contain Flash memory.
 
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