win 7 preformence gain threw use of USB flash drives and flash memory cards

I was looking around in windows help and support and i stumbled across this:

ReadyBoost can speed up your computer by using storage space on most USB flash drives and flash memory cards.

Plug a flash drive or flash memory card into your computer.

In the Autoplay dialog box, under General options, click Speed up my system.

In the Properties dialog box, click the ReadyBoost tab, and then do one of the following:

To turn ReadyBoost off, click Do not use this device.

To use the maximum available space on the flash drive or memory card for ReadyBoost, click Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost. Windows will leave any files already stored on the device, but it'll use the rest to boost your system speed.

To use less than the maximum available space on the device for ReadyBoost, click Use this device, and then move the slider to choose the amount of available space on the device you want to use.

Click OK.

If AutoPlay doesn't open, it might be disabled.

For ReadyBoost to effectively speed up your computer, the flash drive or memory card should have at least 1 gigabyte (GB) of available space. If your drive or card doesn't have enough available space for ReadyBoost, you'll see a message telling you to free some space on it. For best results, use a flash drive or flash memory card with at least double the amount of available space as the amount of memory {ram} in your computer.

i havent tried this myself because my pc preforms fine for now.but this might help someone trying to squeeze a little more preformence out of there rig.if someone tries it let me know what kind of preformence gain you get.

This is effectively the same thing as Virtual memory, but instead of using your hard drive for the virtual memory it uses the USB flash drive.

This is great if you have say 1GB of RAM, but most computer now are being shipped with 3+ GB of RAM now a days. This was a great feature when only had so little RAM, you could just go out and spend $10 on a 2GB flash drive and increase your available memory, but it doesn't give the same performance as RAM does.

Readyboost was "okay" in vista for people with 2 GB of ram, have over 4GB and it does nothing

welcome to 4 years ago, the vista launch day! this was very helpful back when vista launch on those stupid 1.6ghz celeron laptops with 512mb ram. its THESE laptops that i balme everyones hate for vista becasue everyone whinged it was to slow. once the customer would load up msn, skype, yahoo AND five different "free" antispyware programs, they would complain that vista was to slow!!!!.......i wonder why!

welcome to 4 years ago, the vista launch day! this was very helpful back when vista launch on those stupid 1.6ghz celeron laptops with 512mb ram. its THESE laptops that i balme everyones hate for vista becasue everyone whinged it was to slow. once the customer would load up msn, skype, yahoo AND five different "free" antispyware programs, they would complain that vista was to slow!!!!.......i wonder why!

kungfool69

welcome to 4 years ago, the vista launch day! this was very helpful back when vista launch on those stupid 1.6ghz celeron laptops with 512mb ram. its THESE laptops that i balme everyones hate for vista becasue everyone whinged it was to slow. once the customer would load up msn, skype, yahoo AND five different "free" antispyware programs, they would complain that vista was to slow!!!!.......i wonder why!

kungfool69