flash drive ram?

[dboy000]

hey..have u guys heard of the flash drives that can be used as extra ram. theres a 1gb model for 40$ and i was wondering if they are just as good as the internal ram?

 

[ETSA]

No where near as fast as RAM. You would be better off purchasing more RAM if you need a performance increase.

 

[dboy000]

do they do anyy help at all??

 

[Cromewell]

THey are very little help and sometimes. As far as I know, you also need Vista to be able to use them as more RAM (called ReadyBoost)

 

[Jack Bauer]

do they do anyy help at all??

It really does not help at all.

THey are very little help and sometimes. As far as I know, you also need Vista to be able to use them as more RAM (called ReadyBoost)

I think you can use it in xp to cause it gives you the option there.

 

[Cromewell]

You can put the swap file there but I don't think you can make it work similar to readyboost.

 

[thealmightyone]

I think it's more a gimmick, as accessing the pagefile on a hard drive will be quicker than using a flash drive as memory.

 

[dboy000]

oh..that suks!

 

[The_Other_One]

Haha, just to add to this, I did a little research. A Western Digial 100GB ATA100 drive has a write speed of about 43.6MB/s. A Corsair 4GB flash drive is about 28MB/s. Read is about 43/38 respectively. So in the end, you'd probably be better to just use an old HD