Tofel Tries Out ReadyBoost

One of the new features of Windows Vista that caught my curiosity from the beginning was its ability to use removable flash memory as extra disk cache space; you can plug in a USB pen-drive or a memory card and the OS will cleverly make use of the fast access storage available to speed up your system.

Sounds clever, huh?  But hands up if you're still dubious *raises his own hand*.  Kevin Tofel is not a man to stand around with his hands in the air like a tweaked tween at a rave; oh no, he whipped out his Vista RC2-running Samsung Q1 and tried it out for himself.  His conclusions?  Well, the speed increase is noticeable but you have to own a flash drive sufficiently large and with adequate data transfer times; other than that, it's a winner!

Windows Vista and a UMPC: ReadyBoost 101 [jkontherun]