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How does Vista ReadyBoost speed up the PC , since FLASH drives are slower than HDD's?
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Mar 15, 2026910 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Flash Drives tend to be in the 10-30 MB/s transfer rate speed compared to HDD's in the 100+ MB/s range. I realize that seek time is shorter for the Flash drive, but if you've defragged your page file to get it into one contiguous section, it seems like the seek time would be minimal. I'm curious b/…
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Fix for: How does Vista ReadyBoost speed up the PC , since FLASH drives are slower than HDD's?
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Well, ReadyBoost is really mostly of benefit for systems short of RAM (less than 1GB). Now that RAM is cheaper, ReadyBoost has really outlived its usefulness. If you have plenty of RAM, there's no point in using ReadyBoost. Now, while a USB flash ke…
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