Quote Originally Posted by FireDragon View Post
I have actually been using "ready boost" with my win 7 x64 and it does make a difference on loading times and shut down, i have 4 gb of ram on my AM3 rig in my sig, i also use ready boost on my 939 opti rig with win7 and xp (can only use ready boost in win7, so you cant use the drive at all when your in xp), anyway when you use ready boost it disables your pagefile, and uses the usb drive to do it, i have an 8gb OCZ Rally in both of them, and it makes a fairly large difference on the the 939 rig with 2gigs of ram, seems to help almost everything load/close, on the AM3 rig like i said it is mostly just with windows starting and shutting down, but also i can do thing on the desktop as soon as it loads instead of clicking on something and having that one short initial pause as windows is still loading a few things, also my drive dosnt seem to get "thrashed" using ready boost like it can sometimes w/o it, the hdd access is a lot less in other words, i would think that assigning your pagefile to a large amount of ram would b WAY faster then a USB drive would ever even think of being

Dragon
This is all great, but how is your USB drive faster than your hard drive? Especially for those of us using Raptor's or SSD's, keeping the page file where it is would be a lot faster than any USB drive.