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Has anyone heard of using USB flash sticks for computer ram?????


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Are you referring to ready boost with vista or solid state drives?


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If you have vista and a compatible flash drive, you can use readyboost. But otherwise, no. Flash drives are much much much slower than RAM, much slower than even Harddrives.


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Originally Posted by AW_3_3 View Post
If you have vista and a compatible flash drive, you can use readyboost. But otherwise, no. Flash drives are much much much slower than RAM, much slower than even Harddrives.
They are slower than SATA drives, im not sure about IDE drives though.

The bus speeds are not so much the hype with solid state drives but the fact that there is no mechanical parts involved increasing the reliability and the i/o rate or read write time is instant.

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Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



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