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Asked: 2009-05-06 13:01:43 +0800 CST

Is there a way to get ReadyBoost working with 2008 Server?

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I have Windows 2008 Server set up as a workstation, and found that Readyboost made a noticeable improvement in my old Vista box, so I have been wondering if there is a way that ReadyBoost can be used with Windows 2008 Server?

Edit Lets pretend I have plenty of RAM , but I also have a large pagefile.sys which I presume means the OS perf still is bound to HD performance

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2 Answers

  1. In all honesty, now that you can get 8 GB of memory for $100 or $150, the attraction of ReadyBoost -- using slow USB flash drives as de-facto system pagefile memory cache -- is pretty limited.

    Just buy lots of memory! Seriously! :)

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  2. There's a solution here, unfortuantly it doesn't appear to be fully built into the OS as this uses 3rd party software.

    Edit: Urg, you need to register on the forum unfortuantly. Haven't used this myself and can no way guarantee it works.

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