Boost Windows Speed using USB Device.

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System speed is very essential for computer user. If you use a system, which has not enough speed, you get annoyed. Therefore, if you want to speed up your system Ready Boost could be a suitable option for you. Ready Boost is a unique feature of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 and it is a disk cache component of Microsoft Windows.

Requirement for ReadyBoost to work:

•   A  USB storage device, flash memory, SD card, Compact Flash or any kind of portable storage device with minimum 64 MB space

• USB 2.0 (If possible, use USB 3.0 cause performance goes higher)

• Able to read at 3.5 MB/s

• Able to write at 3.0 MB/s   

Configure Windows Ready Boost:

 Configure Ready Boost in Windows Vista is quite simple. Firstly you have to insert a flash device in your system’s USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista check the device compatibility for Ready Boost. It will be better if you move all data from flash memory before it’s functioning. When you connect flash device in USB port you will see autoplay option in your screen.
 

If not go to ‘My Computer’ and select USB device and go to ‘Properties’ where you see Ready Boost tab, click on that tab. From there you come to see two radio button, select ‘Use this device’ option and then slide on to ‘space to reserve for system speed’ to assign how much space you want to allocate for Read Boost. After that click ‘Apply’  and then ‘OK’ button just beneath the window.

  

Doing this a Ready Boost file will create in the root directory of USB device, in the size you assigned previously. If you do not allocate the whole space to Ready Boost you can use the remaining space for storage. Ready Boost works as a repository for non-system files only, so you can easily remove the device at any time without worry. You can enable Ready Boost easily by reinserting the flash device in USB port.

 For Windows 7, configuration of ReadyBoost is almost same as Windows Vista.

Problems of ReadyBoost:

      It is always risky to carry a flash device that contain information what you are doing in your machine and goes to wrong person. By thinking, this possible issue Microsoft use AES-128 to encrypt all data in Ready Boost cache and the chances of data lose goes minimized.

Another negative issue of Ready Boost is its memory limitation of read cycles. Therefore, the heavy uses make it defective after one or two years especially those are made of low quality chips.  

Does Windows ReadyBoost Actually work?

       So what next? It might be a question. Does it really work? Well the answer is theoretically yes, it does for every one, but practically it depends on the machine configuration of the user.