ReadyBoost not so hot?
ReadyBoost has been touted by Microsoft as a quick and easy way to increase the performance of your Windows Vista-based computer. It’s a relatively simple concept, allowing you insert a flash drive of varying capacity, and receive a boost in system performance as your CPU utilizes the storage space on the solid state storage drive as extra memory. PC World performed a number of real world benchmark tests to put ReadyBoost through its paces. The results were somewhat shocking. In most situations, ReadyBoost provided a minimal boost to system speed and in some cases even retarded the system below its non-ReadyBoost state. Hmmm. It’s worth noting that the systems on which PC World ran the tests had a healthy level of baseline RAM. As ReadyBoost is designed to be most functional in low RAM situations, it may not have been a fair exercise of the feature’s intended application. Even so, ReadyBoost is slowing down system resources? Discuss.
[Via PC World]
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