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Ben-8151
I am planning a Vista64 Home Premium build and have a few questions about
increasing the performance of the OS. Due to the lack of availability of
3.5" Hybrid Desktop Hard Drives I am looking at the ReadyBoost feature of
Vista. Obviously a Hybrid drive would cache data to allow better use of the
SATA bus by bursting the data at high speed. I am trying to figure out if I
can substitue another media for this funciton. From what I have read
ReadyBoost is a mechanism to move or distribute the pagefile/virtual memory
to a secondary storage device.
I found a vague article
"http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/12428141-2e4c-43ab-8dd2-a6ed6e3b87761033.mspx"
which references removable storage devices and mentions USB drives several
times. It also mentioned setting the ReadyBoost size to 1.5 times the
physical ram (typical windows managed pagefile size), which I think it is
moving the pagefile.
My questions are:
1. Is ReadyBoost limited to USB drives? Could a seconday drive in the
computer be used for this feature, like mapping the pagefile to another drive
to free the OS drive from the I/O load. More importantly can I use my SATA
RAM drive which has 0.1ms seek time and 152 MB/sec transfer rate across the
drive space?
2. Does ReadyBoost provide the same benefit as a Hybrid drive in terms of
boot up performance.
3. Can anyone validate my belief that ReadyBoost is just a pagefile mounted
to another drive to releive the main drive of the I/O load
4. At what point would allocating space to an external storage device be
un-beneficial? If it is just a pagefile, then I know the answer.
A better understanding of the two mechanisms will help me decide what
hardware to put in my upcoming computer.
Thank You in Advance!
increasing the performance of the OS. Due to the lack of availability of
3.5" Hybrid Desktop Hard Drives I am looking at the ReadyBoost feature of
Vista. Obviously a Hybrid drive would cache data to allow better use of the
SATA bus by bursting the data at high speed. I am trying to figure out if I
can substitue another media for this funciton. From what I have read
ReadyBoost is a mechanism to move or distribute the pagefile/virtual memory
to a secondary storage device.
I found a vague article
"http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/12428141-2e4c-43ab-8dd2-a6ed6e3b87761033.mspx"
which references removable storage devices and mentions USB drives several
times. It also mentioned setting the ReadyBoost size to 1.5 times the
physical ram (typical windows managed pagefile size), which I think it is
moving the pagefile.
My questions are:
1. Is ReadyBoost limited to USB drives? Could a seconday drive in the
computer be used for this feature, like mapping the pagefile to another drive
to free the OS drive from the I/O load. More importantly can I use my SATA
RAM drive which has 0.1ms seek time and 152 MB/sec transfer rate across the
drive space?
2. Does ReadyBoost provide the same benefit as a Hybrid drive in terms of
boot up performance.
3. Can anyone validate my belief that ReadyBoost is just a pagefile mounted
to another drive to releive the main drive of the I/O load
4. At what point would allocating space to an external storage device be
un-beneficial? If it is just a pagefile, then I know the answer.
A better understanding of the two mechanisms will help me decide what
hardware to put in my upcoming computer.
Thank You in Advance!