ReadyBoost - Setup and Use

"But what are you guys trying to accomplish."

I am interested in how not why

Maybe I did not get it. But what are you guys trying to accomplish. Ready Boost was intended to overcome the (access) speed limitations of the rotating disks by moving the page file from the disk to a fast USB stick. I stress fast meaning sticks that have access times of less than 1ms or alike (rotating disks typically have 15 to 17ms).
If you replace an area of your disk to perform that service, you really only buy the Ready Boost overhead and do not gain an iota. In the case of the SSD you only have to keep the page file on the SSD (against the advice of many "experts") and you have the optimal setup.
Note also that there is really nothing to be gained with Ready Boost with RAM sizes 2GB and larger. E.g. a system with 4GB of RAM will hardly ever produce a page fault under normal use. Exceptional applications such as CAD may differ.

whs said:

chuckbam said:

"But what are you guys trying to accomplish."

I am interested in how not why

Maybe I did not get it. But what are you guys trying to accomplish. Ready Boost was intended to overcome the (access) speed limitations of the rotating disks by moving the page file from the disk to a fast USB stick. I stress fast meaning sticks that have access times of less than 1ms or alike (rotating disks typically have 15 to 17ms).
If you replace an area of your disk to perform that service, you really only buy the Ready Boost overhead and do not gain an iota. In the case of the SSD you only have to keep the page file on the SSD (against the advice of many "experts") and you have the optimal setup.
Note also that there is really nothing to be gained with Ready Boost with RAM sizes 2GB and larger. E.g. a system with 4GB of RAM will hardly ever produce a page fault under normal use. Exceptional applications such as CAD may differ.

Interested in what?

To enable Readyboost on a Win7 OS when it was disabled because of and SSD install. I what to do some benchmarks with it enabled. If you start a thead about the advantages and disadvantages I will be happy to post there. I just would like to know the information on my first post on the subject. If no one knows, that is fine. But there maybe someone who can help me install the service. That seems to be the only component missing. Can we stay on topic?

whs said:

Can we stay on topic?

Once you climbed down from your tree, I'll give you the answer. It is simple, and if you put your grey cells into action, you may even figure it out yourself.

I attempted this regedit and could not boot. I never install a Service before. I think that must be what I need to do.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\rdyboost
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Mm, thanks anyways. I differ though, I have three gigs of ram and readyboost speeds me up enormously.

~Joshua~

I know this makes my previous post look stupid (at least I think it does), but apparently as I count up all the Hard Count thingys from all the services/processes, I have two?

~Joshua~

What about a SSD drive with USB 3.0?