Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Is it true that you can use a flash drive for ram with vista?

I was at best buy and someone told me that if you plugin a special flash drive into a pc with vista, it will use it as ram. Is this true at all ,because i seriously doubt it.Is it true that you can use a flash drive for ram with vista?
Yes and no.


You need a special fast drive and it marginally speeds things up. I've read good and bad things about in different computer mags. Its not as fast as dedicated system ram.Is it true that you can use a flash drive for ram with vista?
absolutely true. you can save a lot of money this way.
yes you can,you don't need a special type of flash drive,any type of flash drive will do.the maximum amount that you can use as ram is 2GB.
Well it is not really RAM but Vista uses it for extra fast disk caching. The technology is called Ready Boost and they special ReadyBoost flash drives can be purchased here:





http://www.gamegiants.net/advanced_searc鈥?/a>





Here is some information from wikipedia on them as well:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
Yes it is. It acts as a pagefile. You dont need a special flash drive though, you can use any flash drive out there. You can also do it in Windows XP.





Plug in a flash drive into your computer and go into your system properties by right-clicking on my computer. Go under the advanced tab and under Performance click settings...then on the new window click the advanced tab...under Virtual memory click change...in the new window look for your flash drive in the list and then you can specify how much of the memory from it that the system can use.
It does, but not like your normal RAM stick.





Vista allows you to put your ';Paging file'; or ';Virtual Memory'; onto a flash drive. The benefit of this is that flash drives have much faster transfer rates and access times than the normal medium for ';Paging File'; or ';Virtual Memory'; which is the hard drive.





This will increase Vista's performance only on programs that will need more memory than you have in physical memory. In other words, programs like Auto-Cad or some high end Video games.

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