REady boost? Tried it? Help?

[lens pirate]

I just tried it on my box and it maybe be all in my head but I think it helps.
The box feels snappy, more than normal without the ready boost.

Interesting results. What the consensus here? Is it worth the trouble?

 

[450]

I tried it for a while. For me it wasn't the trouble of putting in a USB drive. I didn't really notice any real world gains from my one month of using it with Vista Business. I suppose it might do well on a benchmark, but I didn't 'feel' anything.

 

[Yoda4561]

For desktop use with 2g of ram, it does seem to help slightly with "snappyness". Gaming has only been negatively impacted, it either has no effect or causes stuttering, sometimes severe (COD-4) with a 256 meg graphics card. When I had a 512 meg 4850 it reduced the stuttering a bit but only removing the readyboost drive eliminated it (with both 256/512 cards). Once I upgraded to 4gb of ram and vista64 this week it has zero effect, so no more readyboost for me. Any system with less than 2g of ram and isn't used for lots of gaming might see signifigant improvement in responsiveness.

 

[Reus]

I see no point in ReadyBoost on a system with over 2GB of RAM, let alone 12GB! Waste of a flash drive in my opinion.