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    Vista Readyboost -- faster bootup?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by powz, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. powz

    powz Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know if Vista's "Readyboost" option speeds up boot-up times or does it just speed up performance after boot-up? Also, for those who've used it, how noticeable is the performance difference? Thanks.
     
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    Mikey94025 Notebook Guru

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    ReadyBoost particularly improves performance at boot-up time because its cache doesn't go away when the machine shuts down (non-volatile). After boot-up, regular RAM memory caches (if available) perform better than ReadyBoost because RAM access is still faster. But once you shut down, all that RAM cache goes away...
     
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