Best use of new express card on Windows

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I just bought a 48GB SSD express card for my laptop and I am trying to decide how best to use it.

I will be running some sort of virtualization (prob VirtualBox) to test / learn Windows Server administration.

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
I have 4GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM SATA hard disk.
The express card will read at 115MB/s and write at 65MB/s.

So how best to use this new disk? Readyboost, relocate pagefile, store VM disks, mix / match?

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