Laptop Hard Drive Performance Boosts?

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I have a laptop for work and it can be annoyingly slow because I'm use to having a SSD on all my systems at home. I'm not aloud to change anything hardware related on it, but I am able to do whatever I want software wise. A few years ago there was a thing called ready boost and it helped a little. My question is, it there a better way to do that nowadays? I've heard about USB SSD sticks. Also I want to speed up the programs on the existing disk so just using a SSD USB drive isn't valid. Is there a good drive to use a cache or am i screwed?
 
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It uses ram, that's about the only similarity but you don't want storage, you want cache. I don't think such a small amount will help though.

Max speed is not relevant for cache as it's not sequential but it is faster than a slow hdd. You should have enough ram for superfetch to be fine but if you really don't mind spending $30 to see if it helps then go ahead.
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naaaa...you're pretty much screwed.
Any hardware used for cache would have to come through the USB pipe, so no real benefit there.
I'm in the same boat. My work laptop with the HDD is soooo much slower than my home PC with the multiple SSD's.

Just have to suck it up.
 
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If you have some extra ram, ramcache, supercache or other software that can use your ram as a hdd cache. Readyboost still lives in windows but was only a benefit to systems with little ram since it's just superfetching to usb rather than ram.
 
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Is ramcache like a ramdisk? I have 8 gigs on it and i never go over 2. So if i use 4 will that help? Also usb 3.0 has a throughput of 500 mbs whichc is in SSD territory. I was thinking about using this as a cache
 
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It uses ram, that's about the only similarity but you don't want storage, you want cache. I don't think such a small amount will help though.

Max speed is not relevant for cache as it's not sequential but it is faster than a slow hdd. You should have enough ram for superfetch to be fine but if you really don't mind spending $30 to see if it helps then go ahead.
 
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