Performance Issues

Most of the articles that study Readyboost points out that more ram is
desireable. If you're getting a noticble boost from readyboost,t hen you
might want to consider getting more system ram. I think one article noted
that 4GB is the largest supported readyboost drive.

On to your question, I don't think you're allowed to make a flash drive you
pagefile, I thought I had trouble with it, when I tried, just for the heck
of it. Plus Flash drives are really good at small 4k reads and large
sequtial reads are better on the hard drive. There was a Microsoft article
on it somewhere.

Here's a pretty good article that does some benchmarks, this always shows
how real ram give s the best performance over readyboost.
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=5



"Simpledog" <nospamcburnett002.DeleteThis@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4A39781D-EE81-4048-AF97-73A33FC91EBB@microsoft.com...
>I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved
>performance. Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive, could
>I use that drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance as
>well?

I found readyboost actually caused hiccups in frame rate as the device was
accessed.

Could it be because I was using a SD card in a reader? It came up as being
suitable for RB to use.

Joe

"Dale White" <dale.white.TakeThisOut@NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
news:O2bRO0leHHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> Most of the articles that study Readyboost points out that more ram is
> desireable. If you're getting a noticble boost from readyboost,t hen you
> might want to consider getting more system ram. I think one article noted
> that 4GB is the largest supported readyboost drive.
>
> On to your question, I don't think you're allowed to make a flash drive
> you pagefile, I thought I had trouble with it, when I tried, just for the
> heck of it. Plus Flash drives are really good at small 4k reads and large
> sequtial reads are better on the hard drive. There was a Microsoft article
> on it somewhere.
>
> Here's a pretty good article that does some benchmarks, this always shows
> how real ram give s the best performance over readyboost.
> http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917&p=5
>
>
>
> "Simpledog" <nospamcburnett002.TakeThisOut@san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4A39781D-EE81-4048-AF97-73A33FC91EBB@microsoft.com...
>>I am using a readyboost capable flash drive, which has improved
>>performance. Got me to thinking, if I got a large enough flash drive,
>>could I use that drive as my swap drive and would that improve performance
>>as well?
>
>

In article <99F2770C-68D5-4016-A01E-7851A188FDA9.DeleteThis@microsoft.com>, Joe
says...
> I found readyboost actually caused hiccups in frame rate as the device was
> accessed.
>
> Could it be because I was using a SD card in a reader? It came up as being
> suitable for RB to use.
>
It's because it is way slower than RAM.


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