HOW DO I PUT READYBOOST ON MY 2gb JUMP DRIVE????

[amorgan93]

I have Windows Vista Home Premium and i have a 2gb jump drive. How can I put and use Windows ReadyBoost on my jumpdrive since my computer is only running 1gb of RAM at the moment.

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

See HERE (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9c3c3ea5-8c11-5ce0-e18d-87d1ce19460d1033.mspx).

Murray

[RDG]

I'm in a Vista class right now, and our teacher was telling us it doesn't work right, it may actually slow down your system instead of help it. If it works great, then I'm an ass, but from his experience it doesn't do what Microsoft says at this point.

[rwt325]

Ready Boost works best when the size of the USB memory is the same as the size of your RAM.

[Wouwousoft]

That's true. On slow machines, where you use ReadyBoost with, it actually gives it a performance boost, but on fast machines it may actually slow down your system. I noticed it with my 2GB USB drive after a month of using ;)

[rwt325]

Doesn't Ready Boost reduce the Hard Drive usage, or does it. If it does, is it likely to be significant to the life of the HD?.

[Zipcar]

From what I read Ready boost works good on a lot of small files and the hard drive works better on the larger files. The reason as explained is that a hard drive is as fast as the Ready Boost ( 2.5-30mb/s range) but the seek time is much faster in the Flash drive . The arm on the hard drive has to move to find the sector so that is where the time is lost.

[rwt325]

Welcome to the forum Zipcar and thank's for explaining the access time difference between HD and USB memory.

[amorgan93]

thanks