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I know this is on Vista, is it on Windows 7?

Anyway, anyone using it? I just plugged in a thumb drive to give it a shot. Apparently it puts frequent disk hits into a cache on the thumb drive for faster access. The best review I saw for it was "Probably worth the cost of a thumb drive." That's $20, so we'll see if I get $20 worth of speed increase over the remaining life of this PC. I'll let y'all know.
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It is on Windows 7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

I have not tried it.
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Not sure what I think yet.

I put the thumb drive where I could see it from my chair, and it has an "activity" light that flashes when getting hit, and it flashes a lot, so I guess it is doing something...
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Solid state drive caching has yet to impress me.
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