ReadyBoost?

scs_789 · June 27, 2018

So I am still relatively new to the tech world. Finally at the point where I have my bearings and at least know what everyone is talking about. I have a question.

Yesterday I was using HP Support Assistant (judge me idc) to cleanup my system and see if i could push anymore power out of it. One of the suggestions was using a flash drive/external hard drive to perform a ReadyBoost operation. The explanation the HP assistant gave as to what ReadyBoost is, was completely useless. Can someone explain this process to me? Does it eat my thumb drive? Does it actually improve performance?

Fluxcabury · June 27, 2018

It just a wast of time ready boost dosent work most of the time and if it dose it wont do much to help

NelizMastr · June 27, 2018

Readyboost is a technology developed by Microsoft back in Windows Vista. It allows the use of a USB medium for extra virtual memory or swap space (so when your RAM runs out, it writes unused programs to the USB drive to free up RAM). This will put less load on the disk that is presumably running the OS and heavy applications.

It's antiquated in 2018 and not really useful anymore.

Radium_Angel · June 27, 2018

17 minutes ago, scs_789 said:

So I am still relatively new to the tech world. Finally at the point where I have my bearings and at least know what everyone is talking about. I have a question.

Yesterday I was using HP Support Assistant (judge me idc) to cleanup my system and see if i could push anymore power out of it. One of the suggestions was using a flash drive/external hard drive to perform a ReadyBoost operation. The explanation the HP assistant gave as to what ReadyBoost is, was completely useless. Can someone explain this process to me? Does it eat my thumb drive? Does it actually improve performance?

What the other guys said. It was basically a poor man's Optane, back before such a thing existed.

You will not see any difference if you enable it, as modern systems are already fast enough. And if you write to a USB drive for this, it might even slow your system down.