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    Anybody read up on Vista's SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, and/or ReadyDrive??

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by link1313, Jan 31, 2007.

  1. link1313

    link1313 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I was wondering if anyone knew more about these functions in detail. This part of vista impressed me.

    for example, if i were to buy a flash drive and use the readyboost feature would it be like having more memory in my system? (to help with my 1gb of ram).

    Oh yea, and are flash drives and flash memory the same thing?
     
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    Flash drives are flash memory. ReadyBoost would not let you use flash as RAM, it would allow you to cache files on the flash drive (same as the pagefile, used when storing large amounts of memory, slower than RAM).
     
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    ReadyBoost won't give your system more apparent RAM, but the caching of small, frequently accessed files to a flash drive does improve system performance nicely... especially on systems with 1 GB or less of RAM. Get a fast drive (at LEAST 1 GB) and format as FAT32 for best performance. Then enable ReadyBoost. After a few hours of use you should start to notice an improvement.
     
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