Vista RAM information please

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Dr. Heywood Floyd

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Windows ReadyBoost lets users use a removable flash memory device, such
as a USB thumb drive, to improve system performance without opening the box.
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Can someone point me to any reading material on the above quote? Or,
maybe, explain the hows here?

Thanks
 
Dr. Heywood Floyd said:
<quote>
Windows ReadyBoost lets users use a removable flash memory device, such
as a USB thumb drive, to improve system performance without opening the
box.
<?quote>

Can someone point me to any reading material on the above quote? Or,
maybe, explain the hows here?

Thanks
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to be honest, a pendrive can only do about 15-20mb/sec MAX. and thats
read speed. write speed will be slower.
i cant see how this would speed up vista since any HDD's that are newer
than about 2-3yrs old is well capable of 35mb/s+.
all it is will be like the page file.
 
Tim Draper said:
to be honest, a pendrive can only do about 15-20mb/sec MAX. and thats read
speed. write speed will be slower.
i cant see how this would speed up vista since any HDD's that are newer
than about 2-3yrs old is well capable of 35mb/s+.
all it is will be like the page file.
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Tim,

You are talking about sequental read/write speed, while paging operations
are mostly small random r/w's. In this case, flash can be 10x faster than
HDD. If ReadyBoost detects large sequental read/write, it serves it from
HDD.

Here, a couple of links for ya with more info on topic:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429
 
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