Comments on: Fooling ReadyBoost http://blog.stevex.net/2007/02/fooling-readyboost/ Software development and other notes. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: inverted http://blog.stevex.net/2007/02/fooling-readyboost/comment-page-1/#comment-185309 inverted Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:50:30 +0000 http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/02/21/fooling-readyboost/#comment-185309 flash memory is 10x faster than disk flash memory is 10x faster than disk

]]> By: Kelly http://blog.stevex.net/2007/02/fooling-readyboost/comment-page-1/#comment-91439 Kelly Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:40:21 +0000 http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/02/21/fooling-readyboost/#comment-91439 Thank you for posting this- not that I want to fool Vista into slowing my machine down, but just because it's part of a related question I've been seeking an answer for. Does the ReadyBoost test compare the Flash device's performance against your actual existing hard drive speed? Or does it just benchmark against some arbitrary "standard" value that Microsoft thinks is good? I ask this because Vista on my machine rejects every USB Flash device I've tried: they are all "too slow". I have a fast drive subsystem (two 10K RPM WD SATA 3 RAPTOR drives in a RAID 0 array) and 4 GB of RAM, so I could imagine a real test of the USB device versus my drives could lead to the "too slow" result. Or it could just be that my USB interface and/or every Flash device I've tested really *is* very slow. Thoughts? Thank you for posting this- not that I want to fool Vista into slowing my machine down, but just because it’s part of a related question I’ve been seeking an answer for.

Does the ReadyBoost test compare the Flash device’s performance against your actual existing hard drive speed? Or does it just benchmark against some arbitrary “standard” value that Microsoft thinks is good?

I ask this because Vista on my machine rejects every USB Flash device I’ve tried: they are all “too slow”. I have a fast drive subsystem (two 10K RPM WD SATA 3 RAPTOR drives in a RAID 0 array) and 4 GB of RAM, so I could imagine a real test of the USB device versus my drives could lead to the “too slow” result. Or it could just be that my USB interface and/or every Flash device I’ve tested really *is* very slow.

Thoughts?

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