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Is ReadyBoost really of any help with 8gb of ram?

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PascalT

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I am using Vista 64 with 8gb of RAM along with a 4gb Apacer USB drive. When I boot my computer the chugging to write the cache on the USB drive slows things down.

I am wondering if it's even worth it given the amount of RAM I have? I have the pagefile disabled as well.

Thanks
 
Not really. Readyboost, in my experience, is only useful with 2gb ram or less. Anything beyond 4gb should be ok for vista without readyboost. I have 4gb in my laptop now and to be honest i didnt even try my memory stick with it, its only 1gb though.

Anyway i think superfetch is enough for me to take care of my caching 🙂
 
You should never disable Pagefile, some applications are not designed to handle large memory addressing, especially 32bit apps can only use 2 GB memory. So readyboost might help a little, but having more ram will certainly increase overall responsiveness and reduce disc access. In some cases slow thumbdrives decreases the overall speed when readyboost is enabled, get a thumb drive with at least 10mb/s read speed, like Patriot Xporter XT3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16820220261)
 
Well I lied, I actually have a 512mb/512mb pagefile I enabled yesterday. It can't hurt I guess. 🙂

thanks
 
ReadyBoost - If you have a PC running some marginal amount of RAm (512/1GB), it can provide a nice boost to performance. 2GB, less so but still perhaps noticable depending on what you may be doing. If you have more than 2GB of RAM I doubt you'd notice any different. Since you have 8, I wouldn't bother using it at all.

Pagefile - 512MB is good. Shutting it off could lead to Blue Screens should some program you have running need to swap data in/out of memory. As indicated earlier, individual 32 bit apps still have their 32 bit limitations. If something needs to swap and cannot, the results can be.... inelegant.

 
Just make sure not to disbale the service for Readyboost, because it is tied to ReadyBoot. I had it disabled and my PC took forever to boot up.
 
Well, with 8GB of ram, it would serve very little purpose.

But either way, the PC is going to chug a while on boot even without RB - superfetch has 8GB of ram to fill up. And the chugging isnt damaging performance as much as it sounds like it is - not all chugging is made equal. Theres the bad, swapping chugging, and the something is loading chugging - both which lead to slowdown. The SF chugging is a loading in the background, sounds like its slowing you down but isnt really kind of chugging. So try and ignore it - its normal, and its a good thing.

The solution? Dont shut down - use suspend instead, which takes next to zero power (2W or so), and it pops right back on in a few seconds rather than the few minutes booting takes.

One thing I've noticed - the RB cache seems to be initially filled with the exact same data SF caches. If you plug in a stick long after you're already booted, it wont hit the HD at all but it'll fill right up. On high memory systems, the only purpose RB seems to serve is a quiet, quick way to refill the SF cache after you close a huge program.
 
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