USB Thumb Drive for Readyboost

[William]

Which USB Thumb Drives work with Readyboost? Will I see a benefit from
using one? I have a Gateway P4-2.0 ghz computer with 1.5 gb of RAM.

William

 

[Zack Uribe]

I am using a PNY Attache 4 GB version.
Don't freak out if it does not work the first time you plug it in. Many
people, with diferent drives have had to plug and unplug them a few times. I
often have to go to properties and have it optimize for speed. I have also
found that a reformat sometimes kicks it into butt.

You also have to make sure you have not disabled its service, which is
called something like USB hard drive support...This service was suggested as
being disabled in one of the online Vista tips guides.

 

[Alan Simpson]

The benefit is speedier disk I/O operations, which are usually the slowest
operations. Hard drives are inherently slower than other components because
they have mechanical moving parts. ReadyBoost moves much of the commonly
accessed disk IO to flash memory to avoid the mechanics and speed things up.
Here's a couple related links:



http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx



http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20060726_0000275948