In addition, the device must be at least 235 MB in size (although you can designate less than the full space on the drive for the ReadyBoost cache). If any of these tests fail, the drive is rejected.

The blogosphere comes to the rescue for those looking for info to clear up the (at the moment) mysteries of which devices will or will not work with Vista’s ReadyBoost feature. Craig Pringle and ...

It's important to note that not all flash devices will work with ReadyBoost. First off, the device must be capable of 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec for random writes.

ReadyBoost is one of those Vista features that still has some confusion around it. This post isn’t going to clear all of that confusion up, but some recent discoveries make things a bit less ...

When you enable a ReadyBoost device, it allows you to specify the amount of space on the drive to use. It then analyzes your page file, and creates a write through cache on the ReadyBoost device.

With a little careful shopping, you can find a ReadyBoost device for roughly $15 to $30 per gigabyte of capacity. You'll find Grant Gibson's ReadyBoost Compatibility List of considerable interest.

Windows 10 performance on older PCs can be cheaply and easily improved through the use of Windows' ReadyBoost feature and a spare USB flash drive or SD card. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

Still scratching my head over this Readyboost gimmick. On paper, it sounds like a brilliant idea to cache the page file in flash memory for lighting fast random access seek times. But the devil is ...

If you feel stymied by your netbook -- especially when starting applications or multitasking -- then you might be able to use the ReadyBoost feature in Windows 7 to eke out a little better ...