Windows 7: Readyboost

no it is possible that under certain conditions you can actually see a performance gains by using readyboost..

so even though it doesn't show it. it will help in some areas?

redsoxm16 said:

so even though it doesn't show it. it will help in some areas?

yes of course..
thats why the technology is there...
gimp (i think, i know for sure photoshop has it...)
has a cache folder (apart from the RAM)
readyboost is a sense a cache file...
where flash is better (in random reads and writes and in non sequential reads and writes...:)) superfetch uses the flash drive to give a better performance...
(although it doesnt show until you use a demanding application (which is gimp is...)

If im using a flash drive dedicated to ReadyBoost, whats the best file system to use, exFAT?

And what allocation unit size? Will it not effect its speed so much that i should bother?

I thought exFAT was for flash drives mainly cause of what wiki said "exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a proprietary file system suited especially for flash drives, blah blah blah"

So i figured, if its a file system for flash drives, wouldnt that make better use of readyboost? And as for the allocation unit size, i jsut used the default, 32 kilobytes. Seems to work fine.

I dont think i would try running my main harddrive on it though..

Using a 16GB class 6 SDHC for my readyboost, 2 gigs of it with build 7127 and exfat formatted memorycard it works very well on my HTC SHIFT with only 1 gig ram.

So, I've got 4GB RAM on my Shuttle running a Q9550. I won't get any performance boost with this layout?

That is, if I add a 4GB flash drive.

Captain Zero said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but.. isn't this idea a little pointless? Ram sticks are cheaper and vastly more effective. Why bother with a slow USB when you can have actual RAM..?

Exactly!! the idea is for systems with less than 1gb ram. All those saying they have 4gb + DON'T need readyboost. it's like putting your page file in it's own partition (preferably on a seperate drive) and setting it at a stagnant size of 2.5 x system ram (ie: 512mb of ram, set page file to 1024mb). then you see a little better performance but relying an a USB thumb drive will give very little noticeable performance increase unless ur low on RAM (eg: 1gb or less)

welll I just put in my new 2 gig flash usb, laptop has 1 gig ram and is struggling, however I had to enable superfetch and superfetch is now thrashing the hdd , or is it copying contents of swap to my usb flash?