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Is there a way to see the increase my readyboost gives me?

by Rammstein420 Aug 6, 2008 12:00PM PDT

I just bought a 4gb PNY Flash drive.

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See it how?

by Jimmy Greystone Aug 6, 2008 12:07PM PDT

See it how? All readyboost does is cache data onto a flash drive. It's really just a stopgap solution to a problem of a system with insufficient amounts of RAM. You shouldn't look at it as a permanent solution, since readyboost will chew up the write cycles on a flash drive in a hurry.

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Find a stopwatch.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 6, 2008 12:43PM PDT

Boot and see.

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so...

by Rammstein420 Aug 13, 2008 1:07PM PDT

With 4gigs of ram i get no improvement?

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That's the bottom line...

by John.Wilkinson Aug 13, 2008 2:51PM PDT

After you exceed 1GB the noticeable improvement drops dramatically, and even the team at Microsoft that developed ReadyBoost acknowledged that those with 4GB of RAM do not need it and, if they use it, will likely not see much, if any, benefit.

John

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