How does this new feature in windows vista help my performance????
2007-04-08 12:56:51 · 6 answers · asked by compy_500 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
vista ready boost is a program that allows you to use your thumbdrive or card to be a "cache" dont let this fool you its not ram!! its just like a little buffer for it, some arent fast enough to do this and vista will reject them, it will help a little im sure, especially if you only have 1 gig of ram! how much does it help? i cant believe it would help to much unless u have really low ram, but u can try it, also you can buy specially made usb drives for ready boost, and some are faster than others
2007-04-08 13:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by b-rich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read that today in a Computer Shopper magazine. It is a feature that MS embedded in Vista to take advantage of the newly released "Hybrid Hard Drives".
Check out Hybrid Hard Drives by searching for them in Yahoo. Currently Samsung is my favorite choice.
You may already know that Nand Memory is like Flash memory (similar to memory cards for cameras but not quite the same). This type of memory is very fast and it allows the hard drive to deliver data much more quickly and without spinning up. This will allow the computer to wakeup from sleeping faster, to access frequently used data faster, and use less power consumption. PLEASE select my answer as best if you feel it is worthy.
2007-04-08 13:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by japernia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is Microsoft's new disk caching technology using USB 2.0 drive and included in Vista OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_boost
2007-04-08 13:05:48 · answer #3 · answered by Karz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
even as your laptop has its reminiscence finished, it places stuff on your hardpersistent to verify later. that's named a "cache". Flash drives artwork faster than the hardpersistent on your laptop. So in case you plug one in, ReadyBoost will use that besides to % up your laptop. except you've a very previous flashpersistent, it really is worth making use of - you get a performance improve and so a concepts as i know there are not any downsides.
2016-11-27 19:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by tehney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You plug in a USB flash drive and it uses the unused space on it like your system ram, except not nearly as efficient.
2007-04-08 13:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by jlachovsky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It allows you to use plug-in memory as cache memory. I don't know if it actually speeds anything up. I doubt it. Flash memory is very slow.
2007-04-08 13:00:29 · answer #6 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋