Windows Vista Maximum Memory for ReadyBoost: Understanding Limits with a 1GB Stick

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• Feb 16, 2007

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930MB on a 1GB San Disk Cruzer with U3 but the U3 files are still on the drive

 

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• Jul 31, 2007

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What is ReadyBoost anyway?

 

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• Aug 4, 2007

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Acording to Microsoft, Readyboost helps when you need more Memory for many programs to run at once, but I am not sure if it is true.

 

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• Sep 18, 2007

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I bought a 2GB Apacer Handi-Steno HT-203 (supposedly the fastest) USB stick for my 2GB RAM Vista Ultimate PC w/2 WD 10K RPM Raptor HDDs and try as hard as I could , so as to justify the time and expense, I didn't notice an improvement in speed. I did see that the LED on the USB stick was flickering most all the time, lots of activity, but no sense of immediate refreshing of anything I had been working on.

I now use the Apacer for an emergency backup our web sites so I'm OK with the purchase.

It configures itself when you plug it in with a simple, "YES use for Ready Boost," and it can easily be reconfigured to use as a regular USB HDD.

Your experience may vary.

Kerry

 

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• Sep 27, 2007

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from what I gather, The ready boost can help you alot if you would normally depend on paging files...(meaning you don't have much ram)
*(paging file is an area on the Hard Disk that Windows uses as if it is RAM)
*The hard drive is much slower to read from than a high speed flash drive

so say your comp has only 512 MB Ram; using ready boost would be much faster than using paging files on the hard drive to edit movies or whatever other high resource programs you run.

I have noticed that it seems to slow my comp down if I try using ready boost because 2 GB of ram takes care of most every day tasks and I don't usually need to use page files.

 

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kemical

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• Sep 30, 2007

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Readyboost only helps if your short on RAM. If you have 2GB or more don't bother.

 

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• Oct 18, 2007

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kemical said:

Readyboost only helps if your short on RAM. If you have 2GB or more don't bother.

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this kind of short of RAM?

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• Oct 18, 2007

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LOL, yeah that short

 

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