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Isn't it well known that ReadyBoost is not at all helpful on a computer with 2GB or more of RAM? And, aren't SSDs expensive enough that he could just about buy a new computer with 4GB of RAM for not much more, which would be much better overall?
– GeoffDS
Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 3:02
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Apparently, no - somebody didn't know and tried. Guess what, it did help.
– MSalters
Commented Jan 2, 2012 at 8:09
ReadyBoost is helpful in marginal situations. As I noted in my edit above, it is only used by SuperFetch; it has nothing to do with speeding up pagefile IOs. IF your RAM is "marginal" for your workload, and IF your workload is such that SuperFetch can help you, then SF can speed up file IO and even program loading (which is paging but not through the pagefile). If you have plenty of RAM, it won't help b/c SF will already be working in RAM; and if you're really short on RAM, even moving all of SF out of RAM won't help enough.
– Jamie Hanrahan
Commented Mar 18, 2015 at 22:54

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