If you use ReadyBoost, your memory will be 'extended' onto the faster ReadyBoost drive (either some flash drive or a SSD). Normally if you don't have enough memory a page file is used on your hard drive. ReadyBoost is used when you don't have enough system memory.

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. Just move the big folders (Downloads) once windows is installed. Now I pretty much just boot from the SSD all the time and the array is used for steam, other games, and swap.Įdit: also I had the bright idea to move the users folder to the second drive, I made it work but this is pointless really and just slows down the boot. If for some reason I wanted to go back to my old stuff I set the raid0 array as the first device. When I moved my boot drive from my WD Black raid array to the SSD I just set the SSD to the first boot device and installed windows to it. Is there any reason you would want to? Not really. So yes, you can use a SATA SSD drive as a readyboost device. For the heck of it I turned it on, and let it use as much space as it wanted. I saw that windows let me use it as a readyboost device. When I got an SSD for my desktop I was messing around with it and just plugged it in as a second drive to benchmark. Readyboost is not a replacement for memory, it's a fix for slow hard drives However, I don't have an SSD, so there is no way to test. I wonder if that will give you worthwhile SSD caching without having to buy new hardware.Īfter all, according to Anandtech, the SSD cache in RST 10.5 is really just a software solution artificially limited to the z68 chipset.īTW, I modded my bios to include the new Intel Raid option rom from the z68 series, and the 'Acceleration Options' does appear in the bios now. So, does ReadyBoost allow you to put a large cache on a non-primary SSD? However, I already have a fast 4GHz X58 system, and I see no reason to upgrade to something that will perform about the same. Ideally that would be the solution to speed up my system, since I cannot afford a huge SSD. So recently the z68 chipset came out, with ssd caching. Lots of programs and multiple users so it's unreasonable to move that stuff to a separate drive so I can use a small SSD as the system drive. OK, so I have 280GB of stuff on my VelociRaptor drive.

How does eboostr work