ReadyBoost = nope?

1 06 2009

There’s a lot of press about Windows 7 these days, and while I’m looking forward to it, I thought I would share my experiences with a feature in Windows Vista that is also in Win7.

Back in its early beta phases, we were introduced to an interesting and promising feature called “ReadyBoost”.  It seemed like a great idea for IT departments and home users everywhere.

Simply put: you may eek out a bit more performance from your existing hardware by just plugging in a USB drive.

This is all due to the fact that flash memory access on the USB stick is faster than disk access to a swap file.  Vista uses that extra space to swap in chunks of information and help your forestall the inevitable memory upgrade you’ve been pondering for the past year.

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