Readyboost drives C: to 100% use

[LDH2O]

I have Win7 64bit, 8GB RAM, Hitachi 1TB HDS 721010. I put a Patriot Memory 8GB USB3 flash drive on and set it to be dedicated to ReadyBoost. I find that this causes my C: disk use to be 90-100% continuously for the first 20-30 min after starting then it drops to normal for whatever I am doing. I discovered this by turning ReadyBoost off and seeing the C: use drop to nothing. I am not sure ReadyBoost helps a lot but since it is available I used it but is there any way to avoid the high disk use?

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Readyboost is UNnecessary. It was mainly implemented from Vista to off set Netbooks and other 'under' powered hardware systems that didn't have enough / couldn't install more memory which would greatly slow the boot process. Again for systems that had like 1GB of RAM. If your looking for improvements to how 'slow' your system boots the first is to run MSCONFIG and deactivate all the unnecessary STARTUP files (you dont' need to scan for Itunes / Adobe/ etc. updates when you arent' even running the software that day). The next is to install a new C drive by using a SSD, and instead use the TB as a file / datat storage. this would then bring you to the infamous 15-sec boot you may see systems do.

 

[LDH2O]

Well, yes I do agree with all that. Actually I bought SanDisk Readycache and my boot times dropped to 11 seconds. For $40 I did not have to reinstall everything onto a SSD. BUT as an IT kind of guy, I still would like to understand what is happening with Readyboost, why it is constantly flogging the hard drive then stopping. RB is only 8GB, it can't take 20 min to reload after every restart.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Right but it is 8GB of a type of DRAM that can be quite slow for the RB, and depends what your loading on boot, it would be swapping the load files to the 8GB but does it slower over the USB, read / write, check confirm scan read / write. Also have you checked with Malwarebytes to makesure there isn't something else underlying trying to do things.. you may not detect it. I would also make sure your not use MSE as your AV, but instead AVG, Avast or maybe TrendMicro. Also lastly to use Slim Drivers to make sure your I/O drivers (not normally updated) are also up to date