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Vista's ReadyBoost can improve cache performance, but it's not for everyone

Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
10.24.2006
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There are so many new features in Windows Vista that some them may not be getting their due. One of the more striking advances in Vista is something I've heard discussed in a theoretical way before, but I didn't imagine Microsoft would actually go so far as to implement it: using flash drives as swap space.

Why has Microsoft never implemented this before? There are primarily two reasons:

Microsoft took both of these conditions into account when they created ReadyBoost, the Vista feature that allows flash storage to be used for virtual memory. However, there are five stipulations regarding the use of ReadyBoost:

In an organization whose policy prohibits the use of flash devices or external hard drives, it wouldn't be possible to take advantage of ReadyBoost.

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And, unless ReadyBoost were to show a truly significant increase in performance, it might not be worth bending or revising policy to allow flash drives for the sake of this feature. For systems with 512MB or less, it's probably possible to get the same results by simply upgrading to a machine with more physical memory. For Vista, that would probably be a good idea anyway.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter, which is devoted to hints, tips, tricks, news and goodies for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP users and administrators. He has more than 10 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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