ReadyBoost on Windows Server 2008? | Tech Off

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

I've installed Windows Server 2008 RTM on my dev machine recently (damn Sharepoint!), and couldn't help but notice that I don't get the ReadyBoost prompt for USB disks like in Vista.
Also couldn't find anything in the control panel/server management, or by googling around.

Does anyone know if it's possible to enable it, and if so how? I'd rather not try to replicate registry settings from a Vista machine unless I know it'll do me good.

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

I think they didnt include it because a server is not ment to be rebooted.

stevo_
Human after all

Not sure what readyboost has to do with rebooting.. but the idea of readyboost I think was to act like a weak cache..

In the server world, we're expecting high end machines that will have lots of storage, processing power and memory..

Given that readyboost is only really going to marginally add performance to those systems with serious bottlenecks in ram (or really slow harddrives), I don't think it has a place in the server market..

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

Naturally it has only limited usefullness for servers, but as I mentioned, this is a dev machine running a server OS because it has to run Sharepoint locally. Since the codebase for Server 2008 and Vista is very similar, I'm hoping it's still in there, but disabled.

ZippyV
Fired Up

I think it's installed with the Desktop Experience package.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

ZippyV wrote:
I think it's installed with the Desktop Experience package.

Doesn't seem so. That was the first thing I installed, along with starting the Audio and Themes service so it behaves more like a workstation.

Incidently, I don't know if it's just the crappy drivers I had before, but Flip3D finally looks good, without the jagged edges I had when I was running Server 2008 beta 3 on this machine.

phreaks

In reply to Yggdrasil

#Feb 15th, 2008 @ 11:00 AM

So is ReadyBoost not supported on Server 2008?

W T F ?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to phreaks

#Oct 4th, 2008 @ 3:47 PM

Why would it be? ReadyBoost takes memory away from other processes. It's there to speed up an interactive UI experience; it doesn't really speed up services; and like it or not, Server is not aimed at UI scenarios