Any way to test/benchmark Readyboost?

[fuzzyreets]

Hi there. I'm wondering if there is any way to test and see if readyboost is actually doing anything. Anybody?

 

[geofelt]

Readyboost is mostly worthless.

I studied it considerably when it first came out.

The premise is that a suitably fast usb device has a small access time, and a not so good transfer rate.

Ready boost will preload onto the usb drive up to 4gb of what it thinks it can fetch faster than your hard drive. This will be mostly small modules.

If you have a ssd, readyboost is pointless.

It is not a substitute for ram, which is a common misconception.

If you have a usb3.0 device, then it is worth a try.

It is easy to try. Just see if you can notice a difference. I did not.

 

[fuzzyreets]

Readyboost is mostly worthless.

I studied it considerably when it first came out.

The premise is that a suitably fast usb device has a small access time, and a not so good transfer rate.

Ready boost will preload onto the usb drive up to 4gb of what it thinks it can fetch faster than your hard drive. This will be mostly small modules.

If you have a ssd, readyboost is pointless.

It is not a substitute for ram, which is a common misconception.

If you have a usb3.0 device, then it is worth a try.

It is easy to try. Just see if you can notice a difference. I did not.

Right I didn't really mean for my system. Wifey has an older laptop and I was going to throw an SD card in hers and see if it helps. Her laptop maxes at 2GB of RAM so I was thinking maybe it would help a bit. I use ready boost at work where i only have 2GB of RAM and I notice it a lot actually. I'm very skeptical about such things so for me to notice must mean something. I know it does "something" but I was curious is seeing if there was some kind of benchmark to run to see its possible potential.

 

[geofelt]

Get a SSD for the laptop. It will absolutely transform it, particularly an older unit.

 

[fuzzyreets]

Get a SSD for the laptop. It will absolutely transform it, particularly an older unit.

I know it will. In the back of my mind. Trying not to spend the $100 bucks.

 

[geofelt]

I know it will. In the back of my mind. Trying not to spend the $100 bucks.

The $100 hurts for a little while; the Brownie points are priceless.

 

[fuzzyreets]

The $100 hurts for a little while; the Brownie points are priceless.

If it was up to me I'd buy it. She would actually be the one that wouldnt' want us to spend the money. I hate having old, slow tech around.

 

[CIjalba]

Hi there. I'm wondering if there is any way to test and see if readyboost is actually doing anything. Anybody?

Hi there, there is a smashing article about this in http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/keep-tabs-on-readyboost-with-windows-7s-performance-monitor/2257