SSD and Readyboost

Taliseian

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Hello all,

I've got an older Dell Inspiron laptop that has only 512mg ram.

I swapped out the mechanical hard drive for an SSD. It's made a huge difference in running W7.

I partitioned the drive into a System and Data drive and W7 said I could use it for Readyboost. Since I only have 512mg ram, I gave it the go ahead.

My question is that will I see any performance issues since I'm using the SSD as a Readyboost device? My initial thought is no, since its much faster than any hard drive and almost as good as using ram.

Any other thoughts?


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It should work fine, but its not always a good idea to have the OS and readyboost on the same drive, I would say it will do the same function as page files do.
 

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