It’s a
great Myth that windows created such option like Ready Boost and people always
try to enhance performance with their USB flash drive but its completely waste
of time, see the truth behind
A formatted 4 GB USB can work as 1 GB RAM on Windows 7 PC. But the truth is far behind the way Windows shown to us.
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A formatted 4 GB USB can work as 1 GB RAM on Windows 7 PC. But the truth is far behind the way Windows shown to us.
Whenever we insert the USB, an auto play
option is Pop up, you can find the several options depending upon the content
of USB device. For the Blank Drive, you will get two option Open folder to view
content and another is of readyBoost.
Believe me if you are doing this, stop
pretending like fool!
Let me show you some of the stats that will
explain all this.
I did this many time with my 2 GB RAM on Desktop,
and tried to run some of the high performance eating application like
VirtualBox and believe me after running a single OS with 800 MB RAM my PC start
slowing down however I was not using any of the extra application. Here too
ReadyBoost didn’t made any difference on my PC.
Currently I’m showing you result from my
Laptop. Configuration of My Lenovo G580 is i5 second gen 2.4 GHz quad-core with
4 GB RAM, 5400 rpm HDD and onboard graphic memory.
I have Transcend 4GB device having 3.7 GB
usable space.
Let me show you some of screen shot
.
PC’s Performance before using USB ready boost
First screen shot is this.
Before using the USB Boost, let me tell you the stats of my task manager’s performance tab
Everything is normal no extra process was
running, the Task which are visible, Microsoft word, task manager and My
Computer.
Total Physical Memory in MB 4039
Cached 2081
Available 2812
Free 741
Other details from system column are
Handles 18669
Threads 775
Processes 48
Kernel Memory Details are
Paged 204
Nonpaged 83
PC’s performance after Readyboost with 4 GB USB
Now Let me do Ready boosting
And I have done it.
On the bases of Screen shot, you can notice I
have made readyboost working on 4 GB USB, and all the details on the task
manager is visible. Those details are
Total Physical Memory in MB 4039
Cached 2076
Available 2775
Free 724
Other details from system column are
Handles 18791
Threads 784
Processes 49
Kernel Memory Details are
Paged 205
Nonpaged 90
Comparing PC with and without readyboost
What has changed in both condition, before
and after readyboost, let me summarize
Total Memory in MB is same
Cache memory decreased by 5 MB
Available Memory decreased by 37 MB
Free Memory decreased by 17 MB
IN SYSTEM DEYAILS
Handlers increased by 122
9 More Thread added
Processed increased by 1
Overall I have this chart prepared in Excel,
System memory usage is either increased by
some points or not affected. So please don’t waste your time in such jokes.
The Bottom Line
The
Main focused vision for readyboost is to enhance caching memory of the computer
also called virtual memory. This can be useful when your system drive is
running out of memory space and Windows is showing you message that Windows
virtual memory is too low. You can try this Readyboost to see If this works or
not. Well I’ll better suggest you to allocate 4 GB space from each of your
drive for the paging memory. This will be most effective thing for caching you
can do on your PC.
Do
it as follow
Open
System Properties > Advance system settings
In
Advance Tab click on setting button in of Performance
In
Advance tab of new window change Virtual
memory option
On
New pop up Uncheck automatically manage Virtual memory
Select
each drive and provide recommended space in MB for virtual memory.
Save
and restart your PC
After
3-4 Restart your Computer will start performing faster for all programs
including explorer.
If
you still have any question, let us know by commenting below, Have nice time
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Who told you that readyboost will use USB as RAM?
ReplyDeleteIt cache frequently used files on USB. Reading files from USB is faster than compared to HDD which results in improved system performance.
Superfetch feature in Windows 7 cache frequently accessed files in RAM. Amount of RAM size used by cache is shown in task manager.
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yeah but don't you think hard-disk can act as faster cache than that of USB,that what i suggested to have the virtual memory in all the drives, rather to carry on this myth.
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