To Ready Boost or Not to Ready Boost that is the Question

Readyboost provides a faster, more quickly accessible 'space' for system RAM to write and retreive data from where a much, much slower hard would be used otherwise. That is the only 'performance' increase Readyboost provides to the system. When you shut the system down and the RAM clears, so would the instruction the RAM was currently providng to access the readyboost drive. The readyboost drive would be 'preinstalled' by the OS to handle RAM instruction which should eliveate any problem of data 'left' on the Readyboost drive upon shutdown/starup. Thant's how I perceive Readyboost. The OS has a built in 'regulator' to the information on the RB drive. If every instruction that was ever written to the RB drive was left indefinately, the drive would fill up and not function properly. That's not what happens. Maybe I'm wrong. It's just my idea I have concoctucted of RB. But I have had no problem with Readyboost use. There is a lot of misconception about exactly how Readyboost 'speeds up' or adds performance to a system.

I think a lot of people expect to experience a noticable increase in RAM performance resulting in a preconceived idea that Readyboost will 'boost' system performance to another level. When in reality, all Readyboost does is have that faster drive sitting there to access instructions the OS would otherwise have to seek out from the slower hard drive. Readyboost doesn't add faster data transfer speeds to your PC6400 800MHz 6.4 GHz. per second hardware. RB provides a faster access to what was a terribly slow process within the OS itself. Then you have Superfectch with it's ability to remember what the OS is doing most often and keep a record of it for the hardware to bite on. It's all part of M$'s bid to make us even more useless. Bill Gates has the best educated marketing people in the world to think about how to market his software. But, I think it's his idea that someday it will be software that resurrects humankind. It's good for his ego. Under all his timidness Bill gates wants to shout out, "I have a giant brain and I will be the reason for the resurrection". Please join him in prayer and hey Ryan, long live prefetch.

Yeah SSDs are quite expensive but so were DVDRWs when they first arrived on the scene, major price difference from a HP DVDRW $650.00 than the LG DVDRW I just bought from Newegg for $22.99 w free Shipping.

Format your USB Flash drive to NTFS if possible for more speed than FAT32. Yeah, SSD are really expensive especially for the amount of space you get. I'm with Ryan, I'll wait a bit for the LG DVDRW price.