My colleague George Ou has an excellent rant on flash drive performance. As he notes, many people are in for a rude shock when they plug in a USB flash drive, Compact Flash card, or SD card and expect ...

The ReadyBoost feature in Windows 8 allows you to gain minor increases in performance by making use of the free space on a flash drive. However, Windows 8 does not provide any indication as to whether ...

When it comes to false advertising I used to think the Wireless LAN industry were the worst offenders, but the flash storage industry seems to be vying for this dubious distinction. With the launch of ...

On the plus side, one of the Vista's most useful new features is a utility called ReadyBoost. This utility lets a user to plug in a compatible Flash drive and turn over some (or even all) of the drive ...

Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system looks great and offers several improvements over Windows XP, but it’s also a memory hog. Using Vista with 512MB of memory is like wading through ...

Via Windows ReadyBoost, Windows Vista can increase performances in correlation with a USB key. Vista will use the USB Drive to compensate for memory shortage or to simply boost speed, by creating a ...

In all of the commotion over the introduction of Vista and since, one thing is obvious: Vista needs speed more than Mars needs women. Early reports from Vista users can make it sound like they're ...

Just how much is ReadyBoost optimizing your system’s disk performance? Here’s a look at how to use Resource Monitor and Performance Monitor to nail down the specifics. In last week’s post, Is ...