Vista Requirements : ReadyBoost

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ReadyBoost technology is more reliable and provides protection to the data stored on the system. The memory manager checks out the changes and automatically goes to the hard disk and performance is same as the older performance without the flash memory device. You can remove the flash memory device at any time without any loss of data. The data on the flash memory device is also there on the hard disk too.

The Windows memory manager require less time to retrieve data kept on the flash memory device than kept on the hard disk, so time to wait for your PC to respond is reduced and thus the performance of your system increases. It is the technique which allow users to use removable flash memory device, like USB memory keys, flash memory cards and other types of flash devices, which helps to improve system performance.

The memory manager compresses the pages before writing them into the cache on the flash memory device, so that you can utilize and get more mileage from each MB.

ReadyBoost Maximum Flash Memory Device Requirements

• 4 GB Flash Memory Device
• 1 Flash Memory Device

ReadyBoost Minimum Flash Memory Device Requirements

• 2.5 MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads
• 256 MB USB 2.0 or PCI Flash Memory Device
• 1.75 MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes

ReadyBoost Recommended Flash Memory Device Requirements

• 2.5:1 ratio of flash memory to system memory on high memory systems
• 1:1 ratio of flash memory to system memory on low memory systems