vista ready boost

dtokez · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:32

hi all, stuck a spare 1gb stick in my machine and opted to use it for ready boost. my question is how much performance boost will i see and is there a way to monitor how much its usinof the stick?

cheers

mod1fied · 14 Mar 2009 at 17:16

In my experience i noticed little to no different by using a fast flash drive with more than 2GB system ram...

In fact some games for me it slowed down because my hard drive could access the smaller files faster than the readyboost could cache them to flash.

dante6491 · 14 Mar 2009 at 18:23

I read in Custom PC this month, that it is better to use a SD or a Mini SD card if you have the a port, since it is better at transferring data at high speeds or something.

dtokez · 14 Mar 2009 at 19:23

interesting, maybe ill try that. it would be nice if there was a app that showed how much its using it or something

Ratbag · 14 Mar 2009 at 20:13

No quantifiable difference with either SD card or USB stick on my shambling celeron, 1GB laptop.