I've had flash drives last between 4/10 years. If your system is at max ram then Readyboost could be of use but i stress the word "could". If you need to use Readyboost, then buy a flash drive that is meant for it.
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Obviously if you have the disposable income to spend on extra RAM or an SSD, you won't be looking at ReadyBoost.Īre you at your max ram or is the ram upgrade too expensive? Readyboost is no substite for actual ram. "Īnd who the hell would use ReadyBoost if they could afford extra RAM or an SSD? The whole point of ReadyBoost is a small yet significant performance upgrade you can do with a part that most people have lying around the house. So yeah, I was wrong, it isn't the page file.Īlso, you should try reading posts before responding to them: "get more ram or an SSD" - Why would I get another SSD when I already have one? - " Now I have an SSD, so ReadyBoost is useless for me.
" caching applies to all disk content, not just the page file or system DLLs" Which is it, ReadyBoost has nothing to do with paging files, or small random paging writes? Actually, according to wikipedia: If you're needing to use readyboost just get some more ram or an SSD, anything over 4GB you shouldn't really need really need readyboost on. Small random paging writes, as you get a lot of these on a system disk it will decrease the life of your flash drive. Readyboost is designed to take over the part that traditional mechanical hard disks don't handle well. But a friend of mine just bought a 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive to go with their USB 3 laptop, and I was about to suggest to them "Hey, you should use that drive as a ReadyBoost drive, it'll totally speed up your system!", but now I'm not so sure. Now I have an SSD, so ReadyBoost is useless for me. So that could explain why they die so fast.
I read somewhere that USB Flash drives only have anywhere from 2-10% of the program-erase cycles of a consumer-level SSD.
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It's also happened to USB flash drives plugged into other computers as ReadyBoost drives, so I know it isn't my PC that's destroying them. It's happened to everything from a cheap $5 WalMart 4GB drive, to an expensive 32GB USB 3.0 Corsair-brand drive (that corsair one had a rubber case, so it couldn't have been shock damage). But after 6-12 months, one day I'll decide to use the USB drive for a file transfer, or I'll reboot, or I'll just move it to a different USB port, and I'll discover that I can't access it, or I can only read some files, or its only intermittently accessible. I've also never had a USB flash drive that I didn't use as a Windows ReadyBoost drive, which puts the paging file on the flash drive to take advantage of flash's better random access time over a HDD. I've never had a USB flash drive that lasted more than a year, without becoming totally unreadable/unrecoverable.