How to fix this Readyboost problem on my flash drive: "Readyboost is not enabled because this computer is fast enough that Readyboost is unlikely to provide adittional benefit.

Question

I'm using Windows 11 with the latest updates (2/22/2022) and a 3.0 USB flash drive "SanDisk Ultra Flair" which has 256GB. The Readyboost is shown in the flash drive properties [File Explorer / This PC]. I've tried some YouTube tutorials but none of them worked. Also searched the internet but couldn't detect the issue.

Answer 1

Hello @Augunda Lipskis

This may be due to different factors, but usually because your computer already provides a level of performance higher than Readyboost, and enabling may lead to actually reduce the performance.

For example:
ReadyBoost can only be enabled in specific cases, if you have enough system memory, then it cannot be enabled. Your ability to enable or disable ReadyBoost is entirely dependent on the storage device you intend to enable it on and how much system memory you have.

ReadyBoost comes with a significant performance hit, which is worth it, when you don't already have enough system memory installed (less than 4 GB).

Hope this helps with your query,

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Answer 2

Could it be you have an SSD disk? In this case the ReadyBoost is useless so is turned off.