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What happens when you stick a USB drive in for readyboost, and then suddenly take it out?

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Mar 15, 20266420 views
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And what happens to the virtual memory in the RAM stick? nothing seems to happen on the computer

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Fix for: What happens when you stick a USB drive in for readyboost, and then suddenly take it out?

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ReadyBoost is not virtual memory, it is a harddisk drive cache. Windows would rather use your RAM as a cache, but if that's low, solid-state memory is a decent second option. Reading and writing small files in solid-state memory is faster than on a …

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