OCZ Diesel 16GB USB Drive Not ReadyBoost Ready

The OCZ Diesel 16GB USB Drive does not support ReadyBoost feature in Windows Vista. This is what you pay for saving a couple of bucks. I snagged this 16GB USB drive during the 2008 Thanksgiving sale from NewEgg.com for a bargain price of $23.11 nett after tax. A whopping 16GB of space in a tiny USB drive, yet I can't allocate some of the space to execute the ReadyBoost function designed for Vista. How disappointing.

However, does ReadyBoost really boost up the performance by a noticable scale? Seems like the answer is no. Windows ReadyBoost function stores the unused program and data on the USB drive to make the read time shorter as it does not have to search through the system once more when you recall a program or data file. On a review posted by modulo, it seems like the ReadyBoost works best with a system which is low in RAM (512MB and 1GB). On systems which have 2GB and 4GB of RAM, ReadyBoost does little to jack up the performance.