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Onthe flip side, if your system has an SSD hard disk in it, which is much more common than when ReadyBoost was first introduced, because a system with an SSD hard disk in it is, along with SuperFetch, can outperform ReadyBoost, so using ReadyBoost isn't necessary. (Since SSDs are more common in the Windows 10 era, this is really the only situation where ReadyBoost is no longer an effective tool for Windows 10.)

It's important to understand that recognizing the performance gain provided by using ReadyBoost is pretty subjective and will depend on what kind of applications you run on your computer and what type of data you typically work with. I'll follow up on this performance issue next week, so stay tuned.

HI ok but why does it turn off readyboost after Restarts?i have a newish laptop 6mths old.I understand there is minimal gains but surley microsoft would exclude it if it was no use just saying...I will accept your solution but ime going to look further into it .. Thankyou .jez

@Jez50 Microsoft has it available for people not using SSD, and the fact that it turns off the device every time its restarted is not mentioned anywhere on the Microsoft website, for more details on this feature I suggest you contact their support team and if you wish to improve your PC performance: click here for steps.

I actually went a step further in my T500 with an EVO 850 SSD running the Samsung Rapidmode with 8GB of RAM. Rapidmode with the 850 EVO SSD is much faster than a HDD but with readyboost enabled on a RAMDISK drive my windows 7 system is that much more responsive. I think it works so well because the T500 is still running SATA 2 on the mainboard.

2. Set up a ramdisk size based on your installed ram. I only used a small 260MB ramdisk size and stayed with the default FAT format. Even a small readyboost cache of 260MB gives noticeably snappier performance and does not take up much system RAM. I also recommended ticking the option the label the device as it will be easier to find in the next step.

I also enabled readyboost on RAM drive for a T61 with 6GB RAM running windows 7 and got the exact same performance boost as the T500 machine. The t61 is running an 840 EVO SSD as the system disk and it has been modified with the Middleton BIOS so it is also running at SATA II speed. However, rapidmode chews up too many cpu cycles and RAM so I keep it off for this laptop.

I may even turn off rapidmode on my T500 thinkpad as the T61 with readyboost and the 500GB 840EVO is every bit as fast as the T500 with a 256GB 850 EVO with rapidmode and readyboost enabled. It would appear that any SSD throttled by SATA 2 could benefit from this readyboost trick.

Did you find a way on how to do this in windows 10? I want to use my Samsung EvoSD card 120GB for ready boost in my 2gb ram tablet and see if it will benefit. My tablet got an eMMC 32GB and readyboost is disables.

ReadyBoost can speed up your computer by using storage space on most USB flash drives and flash memory cards. When you plug a ReadyBoost-compatible storage device into your computer, the AutoPlay dialog box offers you the option to speed up your computer using ReadyBoost. If you select this option, you can choose how much memory on the device to use for this purpose.

When you set up a device to work with ReadyBoost, Windows shows you how much space it recommends you allow it to use for optimal performance. For ReadyBoost to effectively speed up your computer, the flash drive or memory card should have at least 1 gigabyte (GB) of available space. If your device doesn't have enough available space for ReadyBoost, you'll see a message telling you to free some space on the device if you want to use it to speed up your system.

A system with 512 MB of RAM (the bare minimum for Windows Vista) can see significant gains from ReadyBoost.[8] In one test case, ReadyBoost speeds up an operation from 11.7 seconds to 2 seconds (increasing physical memory from 512 MB to 1 GB without ReadyBoost reduced it to 0.8 seconds, though).[9]

The core idea of ReadyBoost is that a flash drive has a much faster seek time (less than 1 ms), allowing it to satisfy requests faster than reading files from a hard disk. It also leverages the inherent advantage of two parallel sources from which to read data. Unfortunately, USB 2.0 flash drives are slower for sequential reads and writes, compared to modern desktop hard drives. Desktop hard drives can sustain anywhere from 2 to 10 times the transfer speed of USB 2.0 flash drives but are equal to or slower than USB 3.0 and Firewire (IEEE 1394) for sequential data. So, all USB 2.0 and newer flash drives hold an advantage in random access times: typically around 1 ms, compared to 8 ms and upwards for desktop hard drives. In addition, USB 3.0 and Firewire may also hold a slight advantage on sequential data.

On laptop computers the performance shifts more in favor of flash memory, laptop memory being priced higher than that for desktop systems, and with many laptops using relatively slow 4200 RPM and 5400 RPM hard drives. Additionally, on a laptop, ReadyBoost caching can reduce hard drive access, allowing the hard drive to spin down for increased battery life.[10] Also, because of the nature of the power management typically enabled during mobile use of a laptop it is a more power efficient way of increasing equipment productivity.

In versions of Vista prior to SP1, ReadyBoost failed to recognize its cache data upon resume from sleep, and restarted the caching process, making ReadyBoost ineffective on machines undergoing frequent sleep/wake cycles. This problem was fixed in Vista SP1.[11]

Bump for this thread, i just started using Readyboost yesterday with a 4GB USB 2.0 stick and already i am seeing huge benefits with DCS Warthog, highly recommended for anyone who is experiencing excessive HDD thrashing.

Hi folks,after reading Mustang's post it got me thinking,I have an 8GB SD card lying around and was wondering as A-10 is a 7GB download would it be possible to copy my file to it and load from there as maybe a new drive?Don't matter if not,tis a great sim anyway,even then I will try this readyboost thingy and maybe it will help with the few jitters here and there,if ya know what I mean.

3instein flash is much slower than your hard disk except maybe for seek times. For example my Class 6 card can do 6mb/s, a hard disk is much much faster, so loading DCS to the flash would be much slower.

You'll see a little less disk activity for day to day use, but not a huge speed bump. If this is a laptop, it will help battery life slightly. (I use a readyboost drive on my media center just to reduce the drive access.)

It's a desktop, and I go this 4 GB flash drive (Kingston) for 10 bucks. I notice that whenever I have that flash drive plugged in for ReadyBoost, task manager reports an increase of at least an extra 100 MB of physical memory being used

when i used readyboost i did notice that too but what i found that i had a bottleneck when i used readyboost but without i have no bottleneck, to me 100MB savings on a 4GB system depending on usage is meaningless, readyboost will only benefit with those with low memory(1GB or less) anymore than that is a waste and your not likely to see much difference.

I have a continuously evolving mid-level AMD system (currently dual-core, potentially upgradeable to Phenom, relatively slow (by modern standards) hard drives). Readyboost really only helps with load times on applications. You may find that after the first cycle of use, your apps are a bit snappier, depending a lot on seek times and transfer rates on your hard drive. It's entirely possible that it's a technology (like hybrid drives) that was a good idea but was rapidly outpaced by the development of related tech (SSD in the case of hybrid, capacities just shot off faster than the drive manufacturers anticipated I think).

With systems First of all, your post said nothing about the size of installed ram, only that "readyboost is a gimmick". Clearly it is not and that comment deserved a sarcastic response. Second, these forums are rife with anecdotal reports of readyboost providing a performance boost to SOME people with more than 2Gb ram. On my systems there is little if any help on the 4Gb systems, but on the 2Gb systems the advantage is VERY noticeable.

Relax, you're taking it too personally. I based my inflammatory statement on benchmarks by MaximumPC, Tom's Hardware and a few others, including my own ancedote. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if I see benchmarks so take it easy.

Because you are on a support forum. People come here for help. Many of them don't know any better and will take nonsensical statements like yours to be true. If you want to start a thread about the perceived or actual benefits of readyboost then go ahead, but when you post crap like that statement as a response to someone asking for intelligent advice then you bet someone is going to take you to task for it! It has nothing to do with taking something personally, it's a simple matter of being responsible.

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