- Virtual Memory with USB flash drive
- Posted by titus12 on June 15th, 2008
I read some ware that an USB flash drive can be used as the Virtual Memory
in place of having it on your hard drive. Is this a good idea?
Thank you,
David
- Posted by Ed Metcalfe on June 15th, 2008
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:59:49 -0700, titus12 wrote:
No, it's definitely not a good idea.
Your flash drive would be killed much quicker than under normal use owing
to the number of writes it would be receiving and you're running the risk
of screwing things up if the drive is accidentally removed.
I'm not even sure XP would allow you to do this. IMHO it shouldn't...
Ed Metcalfe.
- Posted by Big_Al on June 15th, 2008
Ed Metcalfe wrote:
- Posted by Bruce Chambers on June 15th, 2008
titus12 wrote:
What you're probably thinking of is Vista's ReadyBoost feature, which
can use a USB thumb drive (that meets certain minimum requirements - not
just any thumb drive) to enlarge/expand virtual memory. It does not
replace the virtual memory on the hard drive. WinXP does not, as far as
I know, support this.
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- Posted by smlunatick on June 17th, 2008
On Jun 16, 12:12 am, Bruce Chambers <bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t> wrote:
XP does not have Microsoft's ReadyBoost but there was a previous post
with a "third" party equivalent.
