As he notes, many people are in for a rude shock when they plug in a USB flash drive, Compact Flash card, or SD card and expect it work well with the new ReadyBoost feature in Windows Vista.

Only USB Flash drives currently work for ReadyBoost use. This means that flash card readers, multimedia or memory cards such as SD, MemoryStick, MMC, and so forth--which also typically work ...

I'm looking for a recommendation for a Flash Drive to use for ReadyBoost-ing my box. Specifically, I'd like a brand, and a size.At the moment, I'm leaning toward a Corsair 1GB TurboFlash drive ...

However, in order for this to work, you have to use certain types of high-speed thumb drives. Today, Super Talent announced some of the first drives compatible with ReadyBoost: the $30 RBST-1GB ...

To boost the responsiveness of today's PCs, Microsoft Corp. introduced PC accelerators — a set of caching technologies for Windows Vista. These accelerators, such as SuperFetch, Windows ReadyDrive and ...

ReadyBoost turns an external flash drive into a hard disk cache. Microsoft gives instructions for setting up a ReadyBoost drive for Windows 7, but this also works on more recent versions of the ...

ReadyBoost uses a USB 2.0 flash drive as cache in order to speed up some virtual memory transactions. But how does this help you? SuperFetch is a sort of super-cache.

Like the ReadyBoost drive we saw from InnoDisk, this one won't take up any of your precious USB ports.It uses one of the internal ports that you will usually find free on the inside of most PCs ...

Opinion: Microsoft is touting the extra battery power available by running flash memory thumb drives and hybrid hard disks with Windows Vista. But ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive may trade battery life ...

Flash memory stick makers are showing off USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives at Computex that have been certified to work with Windows Vista’s ReadyBoot and ReadyBoost functions, which improve ...

Linux only: Like ReadyBoost for Vista, SwapBoost uses the extra space on a spare USB drive to speed up your OS. SwapBoost is a surprisingly short bash script that increases your virtual memory by ...