flash drive with pagefile

[ramnathK]

folks, i am building a simple enthusiast computer, and was wondering if i could use a flash drive (i was thinking a simple thumb drive type) to host the page file, what do you guys think? and are there pros/cons of having someting that is on USB vs a SSD HDD?

Cheers
kr

 

[Nothinman]

Windows won't let you put the pagefile on a removable disk, although that's essentially what ReadyBoost in Vista does. And as long as you have enough memory it's irrelevant anyway.