{"id":1350,"date":"2009-01-28T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/a-quick-look-at-windows-readyboost.htm"},"modified":"2009-01-28T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T11:52:01","slug":"a-quick-look-at-windows-readyboost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/a-quick-look-at-windows-readyboost.htm","title":{"rendered":"A quick look at Windows ReadyBoost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My netbook it only came with 1GB of RAM, so I decided to see what effect the option to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would make (presented by Windows Vista and later when inserting removable media \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more details can be found over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodyaz.com\/articles\/Windows-ReadyBoost.aspx\">Kodyaz Development Resources<\/a> site).<\/p>\n<p>First of all I tried a 1GB USB key that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been given with some presentation materials on it but Windows told me the device was not fast enough to use for ReadyBoost.<\/p>\n<p>That was something of a surprise to me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I knew that not all devices were suitable for ReadyBoost but how could I tell why my device was failing? In his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=186\">Is your flash drive is fast enough for ReadyBoost?<\/a>, Ed Bott explains that:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=186\"><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you get a failure message when you first insert a flash device and try to use it as a ReadyBoost drive, you can click Test Again to get a second hearing. If the drive fails several tests, you can look up the specific performance results for yourself. Open Event Viewer (Eventvwr.msc) and click the Applications And Services Logs category in the console tree on the left. Under this heading, click Microsoft, Windows, and ReadyBoost. Under this latter heading, select Operational. The log entries in the center pane include performance test results for both successful and unsuccessful attempts.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, checking the logs on my Windows 7 system showed messages like:<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: ReadyBoost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>EventID: 1008<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Description: The device (UT163 USB Flash Disk) will not be used for a ReadyBoost cache because it does not exhibit uniform performance across the device.&#160; Size of fast region: 0 MB.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: ReadyBoost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>EventID: 1004<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Description: The device (UT163 USB Flash Disk) will not be used for a ReadyBoost cache because it has insufficient write performance: 173 KB\/sec.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>173KB per second is about 10% of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tomarcher\/archive\/2006\/06\/02\/615199.aspx\">the required speed for ReadyBoost<\/a> so I tried again, this time using a 1GB SD card.<\/p>\n<p>First I saw an event to indicate that the card exhibited the necessary performance characteristics:<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: ReadyBoost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>EventID: 1000<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Description: The device (Generic- Multi-Card) is suitable for a ReadyBoost cache.&#160; The recommended cache size is 991232 KB.&#160; The random read speed is 3311 KB\/sec.&#160; The random write speed is 3500 KB\/sec.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and then a second event recording the creation of the cache:<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: ReadyBoost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>EventID: 1010<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Description: A ReadyBoost cache was successfully created on the device (Generic- Multi-Card) of size 966 MB.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, after creating the cache, did ReadyBoost actually make a difference?&#160; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to say \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on a relatively low-powered PC (the one I used only has an Intel Atom 1.6GHz) performance is not blindingly fast and, as the USB ports (including internal ones used for devices like media card readers) rely on the main CPU for IO processing, it could be argued that use of USB attached memory would even compound the issue when the PC is running out of steam.&#160; Those with faster PCs, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/virtualised-demonstrations-eating-all-your-memory-try-a-readyboost-usb-key.htm\">faster memory devices<\/a> may see a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Long Zheng has a good summary in his article which puts forward the notion that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20070307\/readyboost-works\/\">ReadyBoost works but that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a miracle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20070307\/readyboost-works\/\"><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree with [\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6] how ReadyBoost has been marketed and perceived by the public. ReadyBoost does <em>not<\/em> improve performance, it only improves <em>responsiveness<\/em>. It won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make your system or [applications] run any faster, but it will make things faster to load and initialize to a working-state.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on a budget, then ReadyBoost is premium accessory that is definitely not value-for-money. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re literally paying a price to slice milliseconds off loading times. But if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a professional or heavy business user, then ReadyBoost might be a cheaper, easier or the only alternative to upgrading memory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Long suggests that ReadyBoost is not value for money. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d add that it may be if, like me, you have a lot of small USB keys that are doing nothing more than gathering dust on a shelf.&#160; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably not worth investing money in new hardware especially to use ReadyBoost though.&#160; Indeed, one of Long\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s readers (Tomer Chachamu) makes a distinction which is extremely important to consider:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am using [ReadyBoost] for several weeks now and I can confirm your experiences, that it helps a lot to improve the responsivness [sic.] of the system.<\/p>\n<p>So it helps to make the whole system perform faster. So isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it the same?<\/p>\n<p>High responsiveness: the system \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeels fast\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to wait for something to load when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to go to a command. (Example of high responsiveness: when you logon, you immediately want to go to the start menu and launch something. The time from logon to launch is a busy wait for you.) &#8211; this is affected by readyboost [sic].<\/p>\n<p>High speed: the system performs computational (or I\/O) tasks fast. (Example: you are ripping a massive library of CDs. It takes about 10 minutes. If it took less time, say by offloading floating point calculations to the GPU, then that would be high speed. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still longer than half a minute so the system is fast, but not responsive. When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re encoding the CDs, you can do other useful activities, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a non-busy wait.) &#8211; this is not affected by readyboost [sic].\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ReadyBoost is not about high speed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about <em>responsiveness<\/em> (which explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/131742\/readyboost_flash_drives_lack_significant_boost.html\">PC World were unimpressed when they tested some ReadyBoost-capable USB flash drives on Windows Vista<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I decided to buy some more RAM but, for those considering using ReadyBoost, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tomarcher\/archive\/2006\/06\/02\/615199.aspx\">Tom Archer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ReadyBoost FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-1875354-10406176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-1875354-10406176\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Get more memory at Crucial.com!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My netbook it only came with 1GB of RAM, so I decided to see what effect the option to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would make (presented by Windows Vista and later when inserting removable media \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more details can be found over on the Kodyaz Development Resources site). 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