1gig usb flash drive for virtual memory

[imperfectcircle25]

O I was just wondering, I have an extra 1gig flash drive and I was wondering if I could use it for my virtual memory instead of my harddrive and would it perform beter?? Its not really a big dea either way, im just curious. I have 2gigs of ram so i dsoubt my system uses the virtual memory to often anyways.

 

[jondercik]

it would be alot slower and it would wear out the drive.

 

[TriggerHappy101]

Flash drives are like a zillion times slower than your HD. And HD's are a zillion times slower than your system RAM. 🙂

 

[imperfectcircle25]

ok thanks

 

[DOOManiac]

Apparently Windows Vista is going to have a feature to do just that. I dunno how it would be faster than having the pagefile on the hard drive, but they have that as a feature anyway...

 

[Inspector Jihad]

wanna sell that?

 

[TriggerHappy101]

Originally posted by: DOOManiac
Apparently Windows Vista is going to have a feature to do just that. I dunno how it would be faster than having the pagefile on the hard drive, but they have that as a feature anyway...

XP lets you put your page file anywhere you want it also. You can put it on a totally different computer if you wanted to.

 

[w00t]

vista = mac os x 9 with windows gui....

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: TriggerHappy101

Originally posted by: DOOManiac
Apparently Windows Vista is going to have a feature to do just that. I dunno how it would be faster than having the pagefile on the hard drive, but they have that as a feature anyway...

XP lets you put your page file anywhere you want it also. You can put it on a totally different computer if you wanted to.

Yup. AFAIK, through registry entries, you can point to a web server or an otherwise remote location.

 

[imperfectcircle25]

Are you interested in buying the 1gig flah drive?? I have 2 if your interested make an offer.
They are Sandisk mini cruzers and gray in color. Or where u joking around??
thanks
frank

 

[zephyrprime]

Where are you guys getting that a flash drive is a lot slower than a HD? A good flash drive has about 1/2 the transfer speed of a HD and much faster access times. Someday soon, flash drives will exceed HDs in speed.