READYBOOST FOR VISTA AND WINDOWS 7
ReadyBoost is a powerful feature that allows you to increase performance on your computer in a cheap and easy manner.
Have you ever had an experience where you are using a lot of programs in Windows, or a really
Memory-intensive program, and notice that your hard drive activity light is constantly ON or blinking profusely, and your computer is slow? This happens when you have run out of physical RAM and instead Windows is using a page file on your hard drive to act as a virtual memory. Since writing to and reading from a hard drive is much slower than a physical RAM, your computer's performance reduces.

In the past the only way to avoid this type of issue was to either run less programs at the same time or buy more memory and install it.

Windows ReadyBoost allows Vista to use compatible USB flash drives as cache instead of the hard drive. This is faster because it has been shown that small random reads and writes on flash RAM can be 8-10 times faster than caching them to one of your hard drives.

In order to really benefit from this new feature, Microsoft suggests that you provide enough space on a flash drive for ReadyBoost so that you are in at least, a 1:1 ratio with your installed physical RAM. You will also need to use flash drives that meet the following specifications:
· At least 1GB of storage capacity
· The flash device must have at least 512MB free
· 5 MB/sec throughput for random 4k reads across the entire device
· 3 MB/sec throughput for random 512k writes across the entire device

In order to make it easier for you to find flash drives that support Windows ReadyBoost, look for
the words “Enhanced for ReadyBoost”, or something similar, printed on the packaging of the flash drive itself.
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To ENABLE ReadyBoost, visit the blog below.

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