ReadyBoost

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:27 pm

I know this is on Vista, is it on Windows 7?

Anyway, anyone using it? I just plugged in a thumb drive to give it a shot. Apparently it puts frequent disk hits into a cache on the thumb drive for faster access. The best review I saw for it was "Probably worth the cost of a thumb drive." That's $20, so we'll see if I get $20 worth of speed increase over the remaining life of this PC. I'll let y'all know.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:01 am

It is on Windows 7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

I have not tried it.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:10 am

Not sure what I think yet.

I put the thumb drive where I could see it from my chair, and it has an "activity" light that flashes when getting hit, and it flashes a lot, so I guess it is doing something...

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:40 am

Solid state drive caching has yet to impress me.