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| Thread ID: 132693 | 2013-05-20 06:29:00 | Does 'ReadyBoost' actually do any good? | ruup (1827) | Press F1 |
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| 1342335 | 2013-05-20 06:29:00 | Does 'ReadyBoost' actually do any good? I was just thinking to use a USB as an add on to give the beast a boost...but will it? Cheers |
ruup (1827) | ||
| 1342336 | 2013-05-20 08:00:00 | I tried it with a SD card and couldn't see any difference on my netbook | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1342337 | 2013-05-20 08:51:00 | Surprisingly made the world of difference on an older vista machine. Remembering of course that the read/write cycles will wear out a USB pretty fast. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1342338 | 2013-05-20 09:27:00 | ReadyBoost? Is that a sort of Viagra? | Richard (739) | ||
| 1342339 | 2013-05-20 09:51:00 | Depends what your plugged into ;) | PPp (9511) | ||
| 1342340 | 2013-05-20 13:32:00 | Suck it and see, but I expect you'll find that upgrading the RAM is going to be the best solution | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1342341 | 2013-05-20 21:11:00 | Suck it and see, but I expect you'll find that upgrading the RAM is going to be the best solution That's what I did in the end |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1342342 | 2013-05-20 21:31:00 | Apparently it can work quite well if you have a regular hard drive as your boot disk and don't have large amounts of RAM, I have a 3Ghz core 2 duo with 2Gb RAM runnning windows 8 and I plugged a spare 4Gb USB stick into the back because I figured "why not" and it seems to boot slightly faster but really I can't tell the difference in general. I don't use that machine much though, it's mainly a jukebox for my music collection. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1342343 | 2013-05-21 01:50:00 | Yeah, my general experience is it can make a average sort of boost in everyday functions, but really you'd do better putting in more RAM, anything other than basic desktop tasks is a waste of time trying to readyboost, it's just not gonna work. Most cheap flash drives have a max of 8mbps transfer speed, others get up to 20-30 even 60mbps. RAM clocks in at 3-6gbps. You can tell at a glance readyboost is going to suck eggs compared to RAM. Main use is caching things off the HDD, normally the system uses cache/scratch disks (on the main hdd) for temp files it can't fit in the RAM. By moving unessential files from the RAM to the USB it free space in RAM for programmes and using the USB as scratch means that any accessing of the USB won't require the HDD to stop its current operation to seek on another area of the disk. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1342344 | 2013-05-21 11:41:00 | IMO it has no 'noticeable' improvement. Tried with many different sizes of USB (1 GB, 2, 4, 8, 16) and found nothing that majorly changed. Better off to install more RAM ^Like these guys have said^ | SanChippy (16951) | ||
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