Using flash drives as RAM...

VR3
VR3 Posts: 28,582
edited May 2009 in The Clubhouse
So I heard about Vistas ability to use flash drives as RAM - so I looked into how I could do this on XP...

After a little searching, it was pretty easy and I added technically another gig of ram...

I would say my computer is moving at a much better speed than before. Things load better and I can multi-task easier...

Nice improvement...
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2009
    Please tell me how to do that!
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  • haimoc
    haimoc Posts: 1,031
    edited May 2009
    http://www.ehow.com/how_4431896_use-flash-drive-as-ram.html
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2009
    thanks, but i think that is for Vista, I have XP though.:o
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2009
    A flash drive would make good swap space, not RAM. Comapred to RAM, flash is horrifically slow.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2009
    thats what i was thinking but the OP said he added a gig of ram with a flash drive.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2009
    I'm sure Vista listed it as RAM, but they also list swap space as RAM, and that's hard drive.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2009
    but he's using xp
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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited May 2009
    Knucklehead wrote: »
    but he's using xp

    He may have put in a high speed usb flash drive and told XP to use it as it's Swap File...
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  • Marty913
    Marty913 Posts: 760
    edited May 2009
    This product can but it's $30
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited May 2009
    There's no substitute for real RAM. Flash drives are, as above mentioned, far too slow for this use.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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