I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on Vista ReadyDrive (or maybe ReadyBoost) / hybrid drives and possible FSX performance enhancement?scott s..

I don't know if I can have an informed opinion about ReadyBoost or whatever it's called...But I will say I read where a user noticed an improvement with it. Maybe that was with a low-ram system.As far as FS(x) is concerned, perhaps it will help us in caching scenery and the like, but I can't imagine it benefitting a 2 or 4 gb ram system to any great degree. Maybe a few percentage points. Maybe I am wrong about it though--I am still not too up on the implementation of it.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2530 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, WD 250 gig 7200 rpm SATA2, CoolerMaster Praetorian

ReadyBoost works by storing frequently accessed data on a flash memory stick rather than to HD. The premise is that flash memory access is faster than HD access. To ensure this, ReadyBoost requires the fastest flash memory sticks and won't work with just any flash memory.ReadyBoost yields a noticeble boost when running frequently accessed programs such as word, explorer etc. When launching the programs they really do launch faster and Vista as a whole is noticeably faster.In FS theoretically, textures should be swapped in and out of ReadyBoost faster than they are when done so from disk. No matter how much RAM you have, FS WILL access your hard drive for textures and ReadyBoost can help there. I have ReadyBoost as well as a SATA RAID 0 array and I really don't can't say that ReadyBoost brings much to the table in FS. I do notice flash memory activity in FS so apparantly it is being used, but there really is no noticable boost to FS.