First When Windows runs short on memory, it uses your PC’s hard disk as virtual memory, writing temporary code to the hard drive. The reading and writing operations are very slowly than writing and reading to electronic RAM. So computer performance suffers. Now Windows Vista adds an instant memory to your PC using Ready boost technology. You can use a flash memory device to temporarily increasing the rate of RAM on your PC.
Internet one of these devices into the appropriate slots on your PC, your computer memory space and performance is automatically increased. Vista support Compact Flash and secure Digital memory cards, that handle devices hold between 256MB and 4GB of RAM. Ready Boost helps to sending overflow data’s to your flash memory device and hard disks. Flash Memory device is approximately 10times higher than hard disk based virtual memory.
These devices are added to the RAM on your system mother board, thus providing high memory to open documents and run applications. You can right click on the USB drive in Windows Explorer and select properties from the properties dialog box, select the Ready Boost tab and adjust the slider to select how much space to use. When the flash memory device is released, Windows returns to using just the RAM available on the system mother board.
