I was informed by a salesperson, that a fast 200x flash drive could be used to increase the amount of ram in a laptop computer. Example, if I have one gb already installed I could buy a 2gb centrinos flash drive at 200x and plug in to the USB2 port, and then go into Vista OS, and ask it to add memory. Has anyone heard of this? And is it really possible to add ram by pluging in a 200x flash drive, it just seems to simple to be believed?
2007-03-24 22:47:04 · 4 answers · asked by coolcatcanada 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Yes, it's called Ready Boost. Not all flash drives support this though, so be sure to ask before buying one... I'm not very fond on storing part of the memory on a flash drive. Flash drives are slower then memory chips therefore if you have installed memory sticks with very low timings and then use part of it on a flash drive I don't see how this will end up nicely..
It could be ok if you stick only to using Vista and doing the Office jobs, but if you want real gaming, professional multimedia editing I don't see this as an option...
2007-03-24 23:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by agent-X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds a bit implausible to me, you wouldn't gain because because flash memory is a lot slower than normal memory not only that but even a usb 2 port only transfers data at about 80Mb second Max where normal memory such as PC3100 transfers data around 3Gb a second that's around 40 times slower
so it seems the sales man was trying to spin you one and sell you something under false pretenses
2007-03-25 05:58:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its true that you can improve the performance of vista in that way.
its one of the top features of vista
2007-03-25 05:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Linux 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes go for it!
2007-03-25 06:22:07 · answer #4 · answered by rxet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋