windows vista ready boost?

Ahhhh.....it turns out that I do leave my PC on most of the year. If it cant handle 8Gb, can I not allocate a 4Gb partition for readyboost?
 
I've got 4Gb of ram, and i used a FlashVoyage 4Gb stick for ReadyBoost. Saw no improvements at all, but i wasn't expecting any and i didn't buy it for that in the first place :p
 
benjo said:
I've got 4Gb of ram, and i used a FlashVoyage 4Gb stick for ReadyBoost. Saw no improvements at all, but i wasn't expecting any and i didn't buy it for that in the first place :p
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Ditto, only reason I have 8Gb is because my friend lost my old 4Gb at a party and by the time she came round to buying one, the 8Gb was the same price as the 4Gb when I got it for my Birthday :D
 
dbappa said:
Cheers helmutcheese, just wondered. Got 4Gb anyway which I hear makes readyboost pointless
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That's also more BS peeps make up. ;)

The more Ram you have the less Readyboost will help but it still does as its still faster than a Pagefile and you still use a Pagefile even with 8GB of Ram.

For the price of a 4GB drive (for 1:1) its worth it to even tame the HDD chatter down a Tad. :)

dbappa said:
Ahhhh.....it turns out that I do leave my PC on most of the year. If it cant handle 8Gb, can I not allocate a 4Gb partition for readyboost?
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Yes you can use any size but it will only allow 4GB Max for RB. :)
 
dbappa said:
Will do that but how do I get to setting to change ratio and size? Readyboost doesn't even come up in autoplay anymore.
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MS REC the 1:1 Ratio so you use a stick the same seize as your ram amount.

Any Media Disk or USB Stick you plug in should open up AutoPlay but you can simply right clock the drive and choose Propertes. :)
 
Thread Revival,

So the main benefit of ReadyBoost is to help speed up boot times (for those who turn the computer on & off frequently(me)), by storing some/all of superfetch files on the flash drive to increase read times ?
 
I remember seeing this thing come up once, but that was over a year ago, when I was tryign out a naughty copy of some Vista torrent I downloaded..

I now have 4 legal copies of Vista running on 4 completely different specced setups and Ihave not actually seen it at all on any of those?

Soem time ago, maybe 6 months maybe, I was talkign to a mate and he asked about it, and we took a Verbatim 1GB FlashDisk to the Vista Business PC and slapped it in, but nothign came up about using it as readyboost or owt, and I am sure thats how it did it when I did see it that one time?

My main PC is 8GB, thats Vista64 right now. but the others that are running Vista ( 2xPrem and 1xBiz - are 32Bit Jobs with 2GB, 1GB and 1GB ) and both the 1GB Vista Boxes never asked abotu it either?

Is it no longer automatic?

Its not a problem as they are running perfectly fine and more than fast enough for their uses, but since flashdrives are like 10p a penny these days and I have a whole load of 512MB SanDisk Cruizers, well, if they can help. then...

So, how can I force this readyboost to use one ?
 
Pop the pen drive in, go to my computer, right click / properties on the pen drive then tick the box at the bottom for readyboost.
Just debating getting an 8gb ultraII sd card for the laptop, use half for RB and the rest for replicating documents to.
 
Sometimes Im so stupid I an slap myself
'Ouch!'
See...

Ok, I just had a look on this PC here, its running 8GB and is never turned off so Idoubt that it will be worth the effort, but I will have a play with a couple of sticks on the 1GB Machines... Get back on how it fares yeah?

Thanks mate.
 
Sorry to revive a dead thread, but I was wondering what is the recommended size for a page file in Vista and if I have 4 gig of RAM and use a 4 gig memory stick (the maximum size) for readyboot then am I not actually decreasing this pagefiles size?
 
PoD said:
Sorry to revive a dead thread, but I was wondering what is the recommended size for a page file in Vista and if I have 4 gig of RAM and use a 4 gig memory stick (the maximum size) for readyboot then am I not actually decreasing this pagefiles size?
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I always set the page file to 1.5 times the amount of ram I have in the computer, so for you 6GB. You don't need ReadyBoost with that amount of RAM anyway, it only has a noticable effect on machines with around 512MB RAM which in any case, shouldn't be running Vista in the first place. It can actually slow things down on a faster machines by putting stuff on the memory stick first even if there is enough room in the pagefile/RAM so on powerful PC's it's more of a hindrance.
 
RKO said:
I always set the page file to 1.5 times the amount of ram I have in the computer, so for you 6GB. You don't need ReadyBoost with that amount of RAM anyway, it only has a noticable effect on machines with around 512MB RAM which in any case, shouldn't be running Vista in the first place. It can actually slow things down on a faster machines by putting stuff on the memory stick first even if there is enough room in the pagefile/RAM so on powerful PC's it's more of a hindrance.
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Personally, I always recommend you set it to Windows managed. Setting arbitary limits isn't good for performance. Also, readyboost does have a use on systems with large RAM. It can store the superfetch cache to prevent disk I/O being a bottleneck.
 
PoD said:
Sorry to revive a dead thread, but I was wondering what is the recommended size for a page file in Vista and if I have 4 gig of RAM and use a 4 gig memory stick (the maximum size) for readyboot then am I not actually decreasing this pagefiles size?
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With 4GBs of ram, and a 4GB memory stick, I use a 4GB static pagefile on a separate HDD (from the OS), and a 200MB static pagefile on C:\ to allow for a minidump to be created....
 
Thanks for this.

I was aware I wouldn't see much improvement, also thanks for the pagefile advice as I had not thought of using my other as a minidump
 
So would readyboost sort my "hard drive crashing around for 5mins after boot" issue? I assume its rebuilding the index's everytime i switch on :(
 
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