Vista Readyboost: Is this true??.....

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...Is it true: With Ready Boost your access times for any files used in the swap file and main commonly used program files is reduced to roughly 0.5ms as the computer stores the beginnings of 1000's of files on the Memory stick, loads a file with ultra fast access, then syncs the file to the same file on the hard disk and lets the hard disks superior transfer speed load it up?

If this is true then why Raptors? lol Why have a raptor with 8ms access times when you can have 0.5ms access times and whopping speed from a raid0 array :D

I hope this is true cos i'll be getting a 4GB stick soonly :P

So it seems it uses only the file access speed side of the USB memory and flows this into the high load/transfer speed of the hard disk.

Marvelous!

p.s. If its not true then let it be known here and now that i invented it! :D lmfao
 
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Ah i see. I've got 4 gig in my system and a 1GB corsair memory stick sitting doing nothing. Was wondering if it was worth putting it in or not?. Surely it can only be used for access time only and not transfer. If it was transfer it would slow Vista down not speed it up
 
I really can't see how it can be utilised as a memory size boost when at best its transfer rate is around 25-30 sec. Surely its only used for its extremely low access time only, and not as a mass memory/file storage device like conventional memory.
 
I feel most people naturally think of it as memory for system usage like system memory. Going off what i've read its not used as system memory at all, its only used as a cache. Instead of using the harddisk as the cache it utilises the fast access times of flash memory and mixes it in with hard disk transfer speed. So it seems i was close with my guess. So it seems:

If you got 2GB of system memory and a 1 GB pen this won't give your system 3 GB like lots of folk would naturally think. You will still have 2GB of system memory but your cache (pagefiling) will be a lot faster due to the low access time of the pen memory.

So it seems if you have any amount of memory 1 2 3 or 4GB you should be able to gain access performance. Access performance/pagefiling in games is very important so i would think you should notice a difference in game file access speeds.

I'm gonna test this out extensively tomorrow. Lord of the rings online is notorious for memory and hard disk activity. I'll use that as a testbed.

Has anyone else noticed a difference in file access speed using Readyboost?
 
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