Vista ReadyBoost - Flash drives as virtual memory!

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   Hey guys,

I was intrigued by a post last week about page files, in which one of the DSO guys said he wanted to put in a 32GB Raptor for his page file, and someone took that one step further by speculating about solid state drives.

I started wondering if you could use a big enough USB2.0 flash drive to handle the page file, and while the transfer rates and such would make it not worthwhile, I found out that Vista does have a feature that allows you to put a flash drive towards boosting your performance (ever so slightly i'm sure.) Unclear if the benefit is mostly for lower-end systems, or what the performance boost in practical terms actually is, but I found a FAQ on it and thought some of you might find it interesting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx

Chris

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thecomplex Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 230	Quote Reply Topic: Vista ReadyBoost - Flash drives as virtual memory! Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 6:55pm
	Hey guys, I was intrigued by a post last week about page files, in which one of the DSO guys said he wanted to put in a 32GB Raptor for his page file, and someone took that one step further by speculating about solid state drives. I started wondering if you could use a big enough USB2.0 flash drive to handle the page file, and while the transfer rates and such would make it not worthwhile, I found out that Vista does have a feature that allows you to put a flash drive towards boosting your performance (ever so slightly i'm sure.) Unclear if the benefit is mostly for lower-end systems, or what the performance boost in practical terms actually is, but I found a FAQ on it and thought some of you might find it interesting: http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx Chris
	Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.52GHz 4GB DDR2 Corsair 1066MHz Dominator (2) 150GB WD Raptor (10K RPM) (1) 120GB Maxtor (7200RPM) nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB Vista Home Premium 64

thecomplex Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 230	Quote Reply Posted: 17 Oct 2007 at 9:20am
	No one though this was cool.. or maybe there are so many stickies in the Performance forum that no one reads the posts.. Chris
	Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.52GHz 4GB DDR2 Corsair 1066MHz Dominator (2) 150GB WD Raptor (10K RPM) (1) 120GB Maxtor (7200RPM) nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB Vista Home Premium 64

Crulend Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 191	Quote Reply Posted: 20 Oct 2007 at 3:40pm
	Yeah, it's easy to get buried here. ;) I got really excited about this last year when I first heard about it, but I've seen some benchmarks and it is definitely for lower end systems. Even for those, the performance boost is mainly when you're multitasking.
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