ReadyBoost looks to be my new friend on this new system with its memory limitation at 2GB it pulled a Windows System rating of 2.8.
So I want to give it more oomph.
I inserted a 4GB SD card in and it came up with the option to Speed up my System. Since I have a few of these lying around and didn’t want to opt for having a USB key hanging outside of my PC, I opted for this.
Windows ReadyBoost recommended almost all of the card storage to be used for ReadyBoost-3840 and I agreed. After some whirring of my hard drive it stopped and looked to be configured.
To be on the safe side, I went to the Device Manager to make sure it was Optimized for Performance rather than for quick removal. It was and it was time to see the performance gain.
I hit the refresh button and waited to see any change.
The Disk data transfer rate went up a whole 0.1 Subscore from a 4.8 to 4.9. Other than that I didn’t see much to warrant the need for using ReadyBoost after running several benchmarks. On several systems tested I only noticed an increase in performance in some applications when memory was at 512MB above a 1GB in memory I didn’t notice and neither did the benchmarks any significant need for it. So save your space on your storage cards for files unless you really need that increase in disk data transfer rate.
The thing about 64bit systems is that it gets over that 4GB hurdle so if your system can take more memory, there is where you will net increases in performance.
Also if you do use ReadyBoost make sure you allow for it to be removed or manually remove your USB drive, storage card,etc or you will get the following error:
If you don’t disable ReadyBoost you get the above message.
Written by Steven Hughes - Visit Website
