Boost your PC performance with an SD card

Most standard package entry level PCs (Desktop, netbook or notebooks) comes with just 1GB of RAM.  Your only option is to upgrade to much higher memory capacity and it will cost you a lot.

There’s a solution for that.  There’s disk cache component native in Windows 7 called ReadyBoost designed to boost your systems performance by using a flash memory device (USB flash drive, SD card, or any kind of flash storage device) as cache. Most notebook now a days have an SD card slot which you can use for ReadyBoost, just insert an SD card  and configure it for ReadyBoost or you can just use a USB flash drive if you don’t have an SD card slot. 

To use ReadyBoost

Insert your SD card into your notebook’s card slot.  In the AutoPlay options, click Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost.

In your disk properties, you may select to dedicate your SD card for ReadyBoost.  Or you may just reserve/ limit a certain space for ReadyBoost.

Click OK, and your PC will start to configure your SD card for ReadyBoost.

Browsing your SD card after setting up ReadyBoost, you will see a ReadyBoost cache file that corresponds to the size that you have specified for ReadyBoost.

You can eject your SD card anytime when you need to use it or may just leave it there to boost up your system every time you use your PC.

Note: Use a high speed SD card for speedier file caching, class 6 SD card will do.  Using your SD card for ReadyBoost will shorten its lifespan since your system will use it for file caching.  Some forums says that when using your battery in your notebook, ReadyBoost will give you better battery life since file caching will be redirected to the SD card therefore less use of your hard drive.