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.
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.