Windows Vista ReadyBoost – Personal Experience
Date: Saturday August 4, 2007Posted in: tech gadget,Technology,Vista
I bought myself a 2GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for RM62 from PIKOM PC Fair yesterday. The main purpose i bought this flash drive is to try out the ReadyBoost feature that come together with Windows Vista.
If you are not sure about this Vista’s feature, here are the explanation that you can find in Microsoft’s website:
Windows ReadyBoost introduces a new concept in add-on system memory. You can use nonvolatile flash memory devices, such as universal serial bus (USB) flash drives, to improve performance without having to add memory “under the hood.” The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache—that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard disk drive.
Please note that not all flash memory devices (flash drives, SD memory cards) are able to use as ReadyBoost.
I’m unable to use my 2GB Apacer SD card (for my digital camera) for this purpose. The minimum requirements for ReadyBoost is 2.5MB/sec. The sales person told me that this SanDisk that i bought is 5MB/sec. The best practice is to confirm with the sales person that the flash drive is ReadyBoost ready before your purchase.
Once you plug in your USB drive into your computer, a screen will prompt for you to choose weather you want to open it with your explorer or use it as ReadyBoost. If you missed that screen, it will never been too late, you can still right click on your removable disk properties and open the “ReadyBoost” tab.
From here, you will able to choose weather you want to use this drive as ReadyBoost, and you can always set the space to reserve for system speed. And yes, your are done with your Vista’s ReadyBoost.
I really feel that the amount of time it took to load a program ready reduce significantly with ReadyBoost. It’s a cheaper yet affordable way to improve your Vista performance other then physical memory upgrade.
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hey !!
its very interesting point of view.
Good post.
realy good post
thx 
How can I install ReadyBoost on a Virtual Machine installed on Virtual PC 2007 since there is no USB support?
Anyone has a trick or workaround?
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