CNET Forums: Message List - What is Windows ReadyBoost and does it improve performance? http://forums.cnet.com/ The latest posts in What is Windows ReadyBoost and does it improve performance?. CNET Forums: Message List - What is Windows ReadyBoost and does it improve performance? http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/cobd/cnet/cnet_88x31.gif http://forums.cnet.com/ 31 88 CNET.com CNET http://www.cnet.com Slowed my pc down ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-5127502.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-5127502.html 06 May 2011 09:16:23 PDT Close, but ... No, the heads inside a hard drive DO NOT act independently. There is only one actuator arm inside a drive which moves al ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-3254071.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-3254071.html 23 Feb 2010 09:37:13 PST Lots of people... can &quot;know&quot; lots of things to be true, when they aren't.<br><br>Explore this thread.<br><a href="http://aumha.n ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2931514.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2931514.html 19 Dec 2008 07:11:55 PST boost speed and performance i have a frend hu is using p3 with 256mb and 10gb HDD they said his computer is slow and not good in performance they as ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2913776.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2913776.html 23 Nov 2008 22:00:58 PST Norton 360 So you are say tat if I want to used it later on I will have o pay for it with 12 month tie or can I use other o my cump ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2810931.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2810931.html 13 Jul 2008 12:30:19 PDT Of Course your new machine came with Norton 360 I don't know how familiar with new systems you are, but of course your machine came with 360. THEY WANT TO SELL IT!!!<b ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2810916.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2810916.html 13 Jul 2008 11:29:08 PDT readyboost and vista i like games. my new laptop is one of those &quot;bloated vista machines&quot;. my machine is off the shelf. with a grap ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2806634.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2806634.html 06 Jul 2008 22:35:49 PDT Best I could get with SpeedBoost on a Acer Laptop The best improvement I could get was on a Acer Laptop using a SanDisk<br>Extreme III 2GB SD Flash Drive...<br><br>It was ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2805919.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2805919.html 05 Jul 2008 13:05:59 PDT No really Although hard disks my have more than one platter and as a consequence more than one read/write head (one for each surfa ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2804388.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2804388.html 02 Jul 2008 22:25:58 PDT One may not be allowed extra RAM. Just a small comment on these Readyboost pro and con messages, all of which I've been reading attentively.<br> I have a ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2802391.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2802391.html 30 Jun 2008 03:37:39 PDT Vista is the Future? XP is by NO means obsolete, and won't be for quite a long time. Already the talk is about Seven, so will that replace Vi ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801958.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801958.html 29 Jun 2008 10:32:15 PDT I can see why defrag would do little good... Because the geometry is totally different. Defragmentation can be helpfull for a platter that has data situated on it li ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801319.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801319.html 28 Jun 2008 09:47:14 PDT ..ram better that ready boost! Uh..sir this is not a let xp lives or die issue, and all that things you said without base all are wrong. XP can be an ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801203.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801203.html 28 Jun 2008 07:21:55 PDT Vista is the Future by Mick Jagger What kind of dilbutt are you Mick to make such a foolish statement about Vista being the future and death to XP? I bet ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801072.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2801072.html 27 Jun 2008 23:49:00 PDT Windows Ready Boost <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070307/readyboost-works/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.istarted ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2800528.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2800528.html 27 Jun 2008 08:28:56 PDT Satisfied customers If somebody is satisfied with XP, 2K, 98, ME, 3.1, or DOS it's nobody else's business. I personally prefer Vista, but I ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799997.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799997.html 26 Jun 2008 11:47:27 PDT Update We just installed 2 gigs of ram on her machine and now runs like popping fast. One gig of ram on a Vista home premium or ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799434.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799434.html 25 Jun 2008 17:57:11 PDT Most intelligent response yet Amen Mate ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799273.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799273.html 25 Jun 2008 12:50:08 PDT Thanks Keatonz! One of the most intelligent, informed responses here yet! ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799136.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2799136.html 25 Jun 2008 09:21:56 PDT who cares how big the flash drive is it doesnt matter much &quot;You Need a Flash Drive at least 4 GB big if you use all of it for Ready Boost it should be Perfect!&quot;<br><br>t ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798981.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798981.html 25 Jun 2008 05:59:24 PDT ... Obviously I have my own issues- The point I was trying to make is that the 3G is faster and I was happy that I did not a ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798954.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798954.html 25 Jun 2008 05:54:41 PDT Wow 3G huh? &quot;The device must be able to do 3.5 MB/s for 4 KB random reads uniformly across the entire device and 2.5 MB/s for 5 ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798949.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798949.html 25 Jun 2008 05:40:57 PDT Readyboost / pagefiles / facts We know:<br>The Readyboost feature uses memory from the USB Flash Drive to supplement the computers RAM.<br><br>USB has ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798977.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798977.html 25 Jun 2008 05:40:26 PDT how to increase u r pc speed & performance? Now i tell u how to increase u r pc's total performance.<br>generally many people increase their pc speed by format pc,d ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798103.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2798103.html 23 Jun 2008 21:30:26 PDT answer to MikeJagger My Antivirus posts an update every day<br>Microsoft releases an update every so often.<br>conclusion: I prefer to rely o ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797890.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797890.html 23 Jun 2008 14:39:41 PDT SSD as ReadyBoost Yes, SSD drives work just like hard drives: boot sector, file system, etc. Just don't ever defrag an SSD, it shortens it ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797857.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797857.html 23 Jun 2008 14:27:13 PDT Sorry Lee, Did not intend to Hi-jack your thread...<br><br>Do SSD'd have a boot sector? ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797855.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797855.html 23 Jun 2008 14:13:19 PDT In fact this was done on one of the OLPC laptops.. except they put a Linux distro on it, so they would have room for storage, and not bloat!<br><br>SD chips with 4 Gb of m ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797846.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797846.html 23 Jun 2008 13:42:31 PDT OS on the SSD (like the good old Comodore 64) ... well, thanks to bloated, convoluted and slow operating systems (Aka Vista), we might as well go back to the C64 conc ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797805.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797805.html 23 Jun 2008 13:11:16 PDT The more things change the more they remain the same. &quot;...or the operating system it would be fantastic!&quot;<br><br>Thats too funny. Many Moons ago the Commodore 64 ha ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797782.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797782.html 23 Jun 2008 12:52:04 PDT That is exactly the way I was planning on doing it! I don't trust solid state drives enough yet to keep data on, but for temporary data(page file or ready boost), or the op ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797734.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797734.html 23 Jun 2008 12:07:43 PDT How about a SSD insted of a USB device? My question is this: instead of going throughthe serial communication between a USB port and a USB memory device, why no ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797562.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797562.html 23 Jun 2008 07:27:03 PDT Vista & Readyboost I have been using Vista with and without readyboost for about a year now, some observations:<br><br>When I first used Re ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797523.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797523.html 23 Jun 2008 07:01:13 PDT Wear it out? &quot;Rather than letting Windows wear out the flash memory, why not put your applications on the USB drive (A single wr ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797522.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797522.html 23 Jun 2008 06:53:51 PDT Give Lee a break! &quot;Journalistic integrity??&quot; C'mon man, this is a place for people to give their experiences about Ready Boost, ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797503.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797503.html 23 Jun 2008 05:44:49 PDT I'm sure that is correct for your situation... However, I have to go afield and do heavy video work on laptops; the only way to be competitive. So a good readyboost pl ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797389.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797389.html 22 Jun 2008 21:31:17 PDT The same coments apply to eBooster The same comments apply to eBooster, a ReadyBoost equivelent that runs under XP. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797380.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797380.html 22 Jun 2008 20:15:40 PDT ReadyBoost helpful on Media Center I use ReadyBoost on my Media Center computer, and it makes a significant difference in how quickly my music, video, and ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797272.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2797272.html 22 Jun 2008 17:02:35 PDT Thank you ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796974.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796974.html 22 Jun 2008 07:59:36 PDT Ready Boost We have 2 07' Compaq notebooks with Vista. Hers has an AMD, vista home premium, one gig of ram and runs woefully slow. I ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796968.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796968.html 22 Jun 2008 07:43:14 PDT It all depends... I was once extremely interested in ReadyBoost. Here is my story. My school gave me a laptop in 2005, a then IBM (now Len ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796910.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796910.html 22 Jun 2008 06:09:21 PDT dprozzo - RAM Upgrade dprozzo, You mean upgrade to at least 2GB, not 2MB, right? <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/happ ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796829.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796829.html 21 Jun 2008 23:33:36 PDT ReadyBoost As always,many have posted great tips.So I will post my personal experience with ReadyBoost.My laptop is a modest HP Pav ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796826.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796826.html 21 Jun 2008 23:13:20 PDT Vista Apologista No, Vista is no more secure than XP. The only difference is the blame. When you are hacked, well, you thought it was o ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796784.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796784.html 21 Jun 2008 21:41:19 PDT readyboost trial and error. i have personally used ready boost, with a 2 gig usb, and there is a very slight difference. but not enough to really go ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796741.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796741.html 21 Jun 2008 18:50:05 PDT sorry joshua I was previously running XP but after considerable research I switched to Vista, and thanks to the fact that I actually ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796710.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796710.html 21 Jun 2008 17:43:05 PDT Agreed It is the adware and spyware, they benefit from their 'attacks'. Viruses on the other hand only benefit the people who w ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796698.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796698.html 21 Jun 2008 16:27:54 PDT Really!!! Really!! The issue is adware and spyware, not viruses. Of course you use Norton or McAfee with Vista to protect from vi ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796693.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796693.html 21 Jun 2008 15:58:09 PDT You got that right. Man...I really agree there, I too m sick of hearing how lame Vista is when in every case it's simply a matter of ther us ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796680.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796680.html 21 Jun 2008 15:41:00 PDT Really? If it doesn't get infected why did my new machine come with Norton 360?<br><br>I have never run an AV program on any of ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796691.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-12546_102-2796691.html 21 Jun 2008 15:38:35 PDT