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Does Readyboost improve performance?

Anonymous
2020-11-02T11:10:56+00:00

Hi Microsoft,

Sorry this is an account created only for this purpose of asking this question as i wanted my privacy.

I purchased a laptop recently and it is a bit slow, so i checked a few ways to boost it and i found out about readyboost. I have been using readyboost for some time but i have noticed that performance is not so great so I read somewhere that to use readyboost its best to format it to "exfat" but i am not sure about the allocation unit size. 

I would like to know what allocation size i must input. and whether i should format to exfat or not...also before formatting to exfat it showed for optimum performance around 4GB when the USB drive is 8GB but after formatting to exfat its using almost 8GB.So i would like to know how to use the entire 8GB and still get the most out of readyboost. And please give me some tips to speed up my pc I want to do a ppt presentation and most of the time when i slideshow it my pc hangs and slows down a lot and sometimes i have to force shutdown.My Operating System is Windows 10 with the latest 20H2 update.

Any reply would be appreciated,

Regards

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  1. DaveM121 877.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-11-02T11:23:08+00:00

    Hi Albert

    I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

    ReadyBoost was a technology Microsoft toyed with for a long time and to be honest, it really does not improve your system performance on a modern PC or laptop

    Typically Windows will use your RAM first, and then the page file on your hard drive and ReadyBoost is meant to be faster than using the page file on an old spinning hard drive

    If you have an SSD drive on your PC, then access to that will be faster than a USB drive and there is no point in using ReadyBoost

    There is a lot of articles about which is the best format for ReadyBoost, and it does seem that ExFAT with Default Allocation Size is best

    Honestly, even ReadyBoost is no Substitute for purchasing extra RAM, which costs about the same price as a decent USB Flash drive . .

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-02T15:36:52+00:00

    Two points:

    1. Not to give you a hard time, but you should note that this isn't Microsoft you're addressing here; this is a peer support forum. We are all just users of this version of Windows here, helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names; that's an honorary title for having provided consistently helpful advice) except for an occasional Microsoft contractor or employee.
    2. As far as I'm concerned, Readyboost is useless and should *not* be used.

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