Readyboost newb question

[horrorific]

I've been hearing several things about readyboost, but still don't quite get the concept. Can someone please explain?

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Small files are cached on a fast enough flash disk since they're latency is much lower than a harddrive's, therefore improving performance but it doesnt quite work so great

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Can toms please fix the edit feature??
Spelling error: should be 'their' not 'they're'

 

[horrorific]

Wait, so does that mean it works the same way ram does?

 

[DXRick]

You don't know how to use Google yet?

The first hit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost