Windows 10: Does Readyboost improve performance?

Hi Microsoft,

Sorry this is an account created only for this purpose of asking this question as i wanted my privacy.

I purchased a laptop recently and it is a bit slow, so i checked a few ways to boost it and i found out aboutreadyboost. I have been using readyboost for some time but i have noticed that performance is not so great so I read somewhere that to use readyboost its best to format it to"exfat" but i am not sure about the allocation unit size.



I would like to know what allocation size i must input. and whether i should format to exfat or not...also before formatting to exfat it showed for optimum performance around 4GB when the USB drive is 8GB but after formatting to exfat its using almost 8GB.So i would like to know how to use the entire 8GB and still get the most out of readyboost. And please give me some tips to speed up my pc I want to do a ppt presentation and most of the time when i slideshow it my pc hangs and slows down a lot and sometimes i have to force shutdown.My Operating System is Windows 10 with the latest 20H2 update.

Any reply would be appreciated,

Regards

:)

 

Readyboost

I have a new PC with 16 GB RAM and I am considering using a USB pendrive for ReadyBoost.

Should I expect a performance improvement in using ReadyBoost with Windows 10?

Where can I locate the requirement for the pendrive to be used for ReadyBoost?

Regards

marius

 

Readyboost on Windows 10

Hello,



ReadyBoost improves the performance of the PC by using external USB flash drives as a hard disk cache. Commonly, this feature is supported in Windows Vista and 7.



With regards to Windows 10, we have to determine if the said feature is supported by your system. We suggest that you check yours. Insert a flash drive and access the
Properties dialog, and select the ReadyBoost tab. Upon accessing the ReadyBoost tab, a series of test will be initiated by the operating system. This is to determine if the drive is compatible with ReadyBoost.



Kindly get back to us once you have the result.

 

Is ReadyBoost Worth It?

My suggestion: Take a boot-time without readyboost and the take a boot-time with readyboost (I believe you have to let it boot a few times before the cache in readyboost is build?)

I have tried it myself and I did´nt find any improvement....