Comments on: Speed up your Windows 7 using Readyboost feature.

By: Maj

Maj — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:59:48 +0000

Windows 7 and Vista only use ReadyBoost if there is 512MB or less system RAM installed.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:41:13 +0000

Good info, I have developed an interest in readyboost after getting a netbook, although my msi L2100 is fast, faster and more efficient wouldnt hurt

I did notice a faster load time and snappier feel when testing a 1GB usb drive on my desktop with 2GB ram. Im glad because I thought I would need something more like a 16GB ssd through mini pci-e on the netbook to keep it discrete and practical but instead 4GB SD is what I got and in the slot I will rarely ever use if that is much better. Now the pci-e slot will go to a HD decoder

By: Augustus Thoo

Augustus Thoo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:36:15 +0000

2 days ago, I found a 1GB thumb-drive in my drawer, a freebie from attending an IT security seminar some time ago.

So, I go about ReadyBoost-ing it on my Win7 desktop. Really noticed the improvement during after logging in.

By: Bob Kerns

Bob Kerns — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:30:18 +0000

One correction.

In Windows 7, Readyboost is not actually limited to 4GB. Instead, that limitation comes from the FAT32 filesystem.

If you reformat a larger flash card with exFAT or NTFS, it can create and use larger cache files. I’m currently using all of an 8GB card. I’ve got a fast 32GB card on order. Supposedly you can use up to 256 GB spread across multiple drives. I suspect even with my disk- and memory- intensive usage patterns, 32GB even is overkill.

My subjective experience is also that my system is much faster. But until recently I was running Vista, and some may just be improvements to Windows 7, especially Superfetch. But SOMETHING is caching data so that Google Chrome can come up Really Amazingly Quickly.