Readyboost

[hrouland]

I am running Windows 7 and have a thumb drive devoted to ReadyBoost. I want to use a different thumb drive for ReadyBoost.
Should I shut down the computer, remove the ReadyBoost drive, and just turn-on the computer?

 

[cl-scott]

You should simply be able to eject the current drive, then install the new drive, and select the readyboost option when prompted to take an action regarding the newly attached drive.

 

[geofelt]

I am running Windows 7 and have a thumb drive devoted to ReadyBoost. I want to use a different thumb drive for ReadyBoost.
Should I shut down the computer, remove the ReadyBoost drive, and just turn-on the computer?

That would do it.

But, having played with readyboost some time ago, I found it to be largely ineffective.

A thumb drive has fast access, but relatively slow transfer times.
The premise is that readyboost will load small files into thr thumb drive, and hope that it can retrieve them faster than a hard drive.
The benefit is minimal because small files don't take much time anyway.

A better alternative is more ram so windows can keep those files around for instant reuse.

Or... use a SSD which is faster than a thumb drive in both random access and sequential transfer.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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