Windows 7: Readyboost vs pagefile vs RAM

In which case, a better, and more constructive, response on your part would have been to provide a link to the "complete truth" so the OP and others could investigate subject at their leisure.

May I suggest, perhaps you could have written "For a more detailed and complete explanation of the details regarding pre-fetch and standby memory please refer to...."

"Half the truth is less than the truth...", "False Information begins with partial information...". Cute, yes... helpful, no.

There are few posts in a technical forum that constitute a "complete response". If a user really wanted to read the the complete technical reference manual they would not post the question on a forum.

that wonderful guys, just great. but no one answered the question. Is it more beneficial to use your flash drive as a ready boost or just set a page file on it. I have a small netbook that I use for school and it is rather slow. So i bought a small [8mm , very low profile and totally cool] 4gb usb flash drive. Which would help regular computing more. Windows ready boost or jsut setting the page file to 4gb on the drive. I could care less about boot time.


thanks.

Since you seem to have sufficient RAM in that Readyboost really provides no benefit to you, I'd go with the pagefile Just try it...but might I add that generally the pagefile is just a poor substitute for, well, more RAM...

Here is a Ready Boost Monitor with which you can measure the activities. I think with 4GB of RAM or more, you will find very little, if any, activity since there is hardly any paging (hard faults) going on. You can check that in Resource Monitor > Memory tab > the graph on the bottom right. That shows you the paging activities over a certain period of time.

the size of the flash drive I am using is 4gb... The amount of RAM on the net book I am talking about is less than 2

Welcome to Seven Forums etdavenport. since your netbook has 2GB RAM installed I would expect it to show some type of speed improvement,say, lagre apps opening or more steady video. You can try both options mentioned here i.e. page file on the USB and use as more RAM. I suspect you'll have more benefit with ReadyBoost, as WHS said.

thank you!

Very welcome.