Will ReadyBoost do anything for me?

I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

Malke
Fri Mar 28 07:23:42 PDT 2008

Ernie Lane wrote:

> I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
> ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
> already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
> purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

I don't ever think having a usb thumbdrive is a waste of money since they
are so useful. Now that they're so cheap, it isn't a big investment. I just
bought a 4GB Kingston for $16.99 at NewEgg. Granted, that's a sale price
but even at full prices the thumbdrives are very reasonable.

That doesn't answer your question as to whether it will help you. Really,
the only way to find out is for you to try it because each machine is
different. When I only had 512MB on my Vista testbed, the ReadyBoost really
made a difference. With 1.5MB, I didn't see much difference with the
thumbdrive attached but then I don't use Vista for real daily work. So I'm
afraid the answer is that it depends on you and your machine.

Malke
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PotsOn
Fri Mar 28 07:29:35 PDT 2008

Ernie Lane wrote:

> I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
> ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
> already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
> purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

Well you've already wasted your money on Vista, so what's the big deal of
wasting somemore on a USB drive?

Cheers.

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MyronH
Fri Mar 28 07:30:02 PDT 2008


"Ernie Lane" wrote:

> I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
> ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
> already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
> purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
>

Overall, if you're not using your HDD swap space on a consistent basis, it
won't really do anything for you. For the most part, you won't be using all
of the 2GB of system memory and therefore probably don't need ReadyBoost.
However, if you are running a lot of applications simultaneously and are
using the HDD swap consistently, then you can probably gain some benefit from
ReadyBoost.

--
Myron

Charlie42
Fri Mar 28 07:42:19 PDT 2008

"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net> wrote:

> I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM.
> Will ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared
> away already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
> purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

In my experience, ReadyBoost offers a significant performance increase only
when a machine barely meets Vista hardware requirements, and/or when system
resources are stretched to their very limits.

Adding 1GB of ReadyBoost memory to a 1GB RAM Vista computer makes sense, but
in your case you already have 2GB. Unless you run applications with huge
footprints and/or have a lot of apps and big files up and running
simultaneously, I doubt you will notice much, if any, difference.

Keep in mind that not all memory devices perform equally fast with
ReadyBoost. Should you decide to dedicate a device to ReadyBoost, a memory
card may perform better than a USB stick, but then again if you are
obtaining a device solely for use as memory, you may as well buy more RAM.
It is dirt cheap these days.

Charlie42

scrooge
Fri Mar 28 07:50:27 PDT 2008


waste of your money. i was reading up on that and it says it will only
help with a system with 512mg of ram. with the price of ram now i'd just
buy more ram . i think
i saw on newegg 2 GB for like less then $40.00. where as the 4 GB USB
drive i think
is around the same price.
mike


--
scrooge

Frank
Fri Mar 28 08:37:52 PDT 2008

PotsOn wrote:

> Ernie Lane wrote:
>
>
>>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
>>purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
>
>
> Well you've already wasted your money on Vista, so what's the big deal of
> wasting somemore on a USB drive?
>
> Cheers.
>
Tell us why you're here old man? You don't have Vista and you hate all
things MS. You're nothing but a lying linux troll, right?
Frank

John
Fri Mar 28 08:46:56 PDT 2008

By all means by a 2 or 4GB USB drive for its original purpose - backing up
files. Personally I have never found Ready Boost of much value unless, as
Malke pointed out, you are using it on a machine with only 512MB RAM. Once
you start increasing your RAM the Ready boost performance hype is rarely
noticeable. I am running a Intel Core2 duo machine (2.20GHz) with 2GB of RAM
and even when using Adobe Photoshop I am only using around 50 to 60% of my
memory allocation. As I am typing this reply my RAM usage stats are
displaying 42% memory usage.

I wouldn't say you were wasting money buying the USB drive, but I certainly
wouldn't be putting it to use as a Ready Boost drive.

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"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:MU6Hj.1$Re7.0@trnddc04...
>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this purpose,
>but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

orange
Fri Mar 28 09:27:15 PDT 2008

How does your reply help the OP? You dont care about helping only trolling.

I suggest the OP get another stick of 2 gigs instead of a flash drive for
readyboost, and to TURN OFF THAT CRAP SERVICE= readyboost,

ram is cheap...


"Frank" <fab@notspam.com> wrote in message
news:O$CrrmOkIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> PotsOn wrote:
>
>> Ernie Lane wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>>>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>>>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
>>>purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
>>
>>
>> Well you've already wasted your money on Vista, so what's the big deal of
>> wasting somemore on a USB drive? Cheers.
>>
> Tell us why you're here old man? You don't have Vista and you hate all
> things MS. You're nothing but a lying linux troll, right?
> Frank

orange
Fri Mar 28 09:28:30 PDT 2008

I suggest you get another stick of 2 gigs instead of a flash drive for
readyboost, and to TURN OFF (disable) THAT CRAP SERVICE= readyboost,

ram is cheap... and readyboost is stupid.



"Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:MU6Hj.1$Re7.0@trnddc04...
>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this purpose,
>but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.

Frank
Fri Mar 28 09:43:12 PDT 2008

orange wrote:

> I suggest you get another stick of 2 gigs instead of a flash drive for
> readyboost, and to TURN OFF (disable) THAT CRAP SERVICE= readyboost,
>
> ram is cheap... and readyboost is stupid.
>
>
>
> "Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:MU6Hj.1$Re7.0@trnddc04...
>
>>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this purpose,
>>but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
>
>
>
More RAM is good but turning off ReadyBoost is a dumb, stupid idea.
You need to stop posting incorrect information cc.
Frank

orange
Fri Mar 28 11:37:20 PDT 2008

why franky boy, if you are not using that stupid service why have it runing
in the background???

showing da ignorance again franky boy huh?


"Frank" <fab@notspam.com> wrote in message
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> orange wrote:
>
>> I suggest you get another stick of 2 gigs instead of a flash drive for
>> readyboost, and to TURN OFF (disable) THAT CRAP SERVICE= readyboost,
>>
>> ram is cheap... and readyboost is stupid.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ernie Lane" <ErnieLane@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:MU6Hj.1$Re7.0@trnddc04...
>>
>>>I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
>>>ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
>>>already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this purpose,
>>>but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.
>>
>>
>>
> More RAM is good but turning off ReadyBoost is a dumb, stupid idea.
> You need to stop posting incorrect information cc.
> Frank

Frank
Fri Mar 28 11:50:30 PDT 2008

orange wrote:
> why franky boy, if you are not using that stupid service why have it runing
> in the background???
>
> showing da ignorance again franky boy huh?
>
-------------------------------------------------------
I see you have no idea what ReadyBoost is about do you?
Is that just one of the reason why you can't get you one little install
of Vista to run properly?
Try google...LOL!
Frank

orange
Fri Mar 28 12:19:50 PDT 2008

I know what it is you overgrown baboon!

Its you that have absolutely no technical knowledge and it shows so clearly
that you are just making a fool of yourself!

Better stick with other hobbies that better fit your IQ, like gardening.
or at least STFU and stop playing the know-it-all, IDIOT!


"Frank" <fab@notspam.com> wrote in message
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> orange wrote:
>> why franky boy, if you are not using that stupid service why have it
>> runing in the background???
>>
>> showing da ignorance again franky boy huh?
>>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> I see you have no idea what ReadyBoost is about do you?
> Is that just one of the reason why you can't get you one little install of
> Vista to run properly?
> Try google...LOL!
> Frank

Ken
Fri Mar 28 12:57:09 PDT 2008

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:03:24 GMT, Ernie Lane <ErnieLane@verizon.net>
wrote:

> I use Vista Home Premium 32 and have a machine with 2 GB RAM. Will
> ReadyBoost do anything significant for me, or am I pretty squared away
> already? I'm considering getting a 2 or 4 GB USB drive for this
> purpose, but I wonder if it will essentially be a waste of money.


My Vista computer also has 2GB of RAM, and my experience with
ReadyBoost is that it did nothing for me that I could notice.

But thumb drives are generally useful for other things, so you might
want to get one and try it for ReadyBoost. If ReadyBoost doesn't
improve performance, you won't have wasted your money, since the drive
will still be useful for other things (backup, transporting data,
etc.).

--
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Frank
Fri Mar 28 13:39:26 PDT 2008

orange wrote:

> I know what it is you overgrown baboon!

Oh? Did you try google as I recommended?
>
> Its you that have absolutely no technical knowledge and it shows so clearly
> that you are just making a fool of yourself!

hehehe...try harder you moron!
Frank

orange
Fri Mar 28 14:15:42 PDT 2008

ok I let me turn this around since you know it all.

tell us all why someone might need to have the readyboost service on, if he
has no plan in using it?

Com on franky poo... tell us!

LOL



"Frank" <fab@notspam.com> wrote in message
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> orange wrote:
>
>> I know what it is you overgrown baboon!
>
> Oh? Did you try google as I recommended?
>>
>> Its you that have absolutely no technical knowledge and it shows so
>> clearly that you are just making a fool of yourself!
>
> hehehe...try harder you moron!
> Frank