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- Jun 15, 2002
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- Santa Barbara CA
As I understand it, Windows 7 allows larger amounts of USB flash memory to be used as a supplement to HDD page files through ready boost than Vista. People not using SSD's reported improved performance with USB 2.0 drives enhanced for readyboost. now there are a handful of USB 3.0 flash drives available at exorbitant prices (16Gb, $60) My new build (not yet shown in sig) has usb 3.0 onboard and 4 Gb of RAM (DDR3 1600). Has anyone tried to combine readyboost with a USB 3.0 flash drive from supertalent or pqi? I would guess that performance is affected by both access time and transfer rates, and maybe usb 3.0 is only better at transfers. But I don't know, so I'm asking.