The ReadyBoost feature in Windows 8 allows you to gain minor increases in performance by making use of the free space on a flash drive. However, Windows 8 does not provide any indication as to whether ...
A few months ago, I bought two 240gb SSD drives, one each for my desktop and laptop. I installed the laptop right away and love it, but I've been procrastinating on my desktop (Windows 7 x64) because ...
On the plus side, one of the Vista's most useful new features is a utility called ReadyBoost. This utility lets a user to plug in a compatible Flash drive and turn over some (or even all) of the drive ...
To boost the responsiveness of today's PCs, Microsoft Corp. introduced PC accelerators — a set of caching technologies for Windows Vista. These accelerators, such as SuperFetch, Windows ReadyDrive and ...
Could you really upgrade your PC in a flash?
By virtue of a SuperFetch cache, ReadyBoost “parks” the hard-drive head and spins down the platters for a higher percentage of the time, and the average operating temperature of the hard drive is ...
Still scratching my head over this Readyboost gimmick. On paper, it sounds like a brilliant idea to cache the page file in flash memory for lighting fast random access seek times. But the devil is in ...