Professor
Mr. Louis Voit
Semester
Fall 2007
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Windows Vista can safely be defined as a process-hungry beast of an OS,
and has come to be known by the time it takes to process normal functions
of the operating system. The problem stems from Windows' primary bottleneck:
the swap file on your hard drive that most Windows operations use. The
goal of ReadyBoost is to allow you to plug in a ReadyBoost flash drive
that will (supposedly) create a faster, flash drive-based cache file of
the swap file. This should theoretically speed up certain frequently performed
tasks, like loading programs, and recalling default settings. The author
of the article tested 3 different ReadyBoost capable flash drives: Kingston's
1GB DataTraveler
ReadyFlash, Lexar Media's 4GB
JumpDrive Lightning, and Ritek's Ridata 1GB Twister EZ
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However, the test performed by the author proved that not only did the
three different drives fail to significantly increase the performance of
the Vista, the drives actually decreased the performance in certain instances.
The overall consensus is that the idea of using one of these relatively
inexpensive flash drives as a means to soften the bite Vista inevitable
takes out of your machine is a pipe-dream. While in stand-alone tests,
the Lexar flash drive does rack up high marks in data transfers in addition
to an operating environment that allows for applications to be run straight
from the drive, these drives cannot make the impact on performance that
is proven to come from adding RAM. |
BizTech - Memory in a Flash
Tweak Xpert - Speeding up Vista
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