Readyboost confusion

[kevinali]

Does Vista readyboost require you to always insert a usb drive in order to enable this feature, or can i enable it once (upon insertion of the usb drive) and leave the usb drive plugged in.

Here is my problem, if i always manually insert my OCZ (readyboost ready, as per OCZ marketing), i always get the file cache. With the drive inserted and my pc rebooted, the readyboost file cache is gone and i have a blank usb drive. If is use my pc for hours, the drive is still blank. The drive properties says readyboost is enabled.

What the general concensus out there on this

 

[Jaxidian]

In my Vista Ultimate RC2 machine, I have an SD card in the memory card reader that I use for a Readyboost device and it always works, even after reboots, without resetting the card. I dunno if USB sticks work the same or not. I also don't know if the final version works the same as RC2 or not.

 

[zig3695]

are you sure your ocz drive is benificial to readyboost? i only ask because the 4gb ocz rally 2's pass the test but do NOT help performance (thanks whoever told me about that). Once i got a turboflash 1gb drive i noticed a dramatic difference in speed across the board. You should be able to leave the drive plugged in all the time, and in 'my computer' on mine it always shows 100% full.