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- May 23, 2002
In the office today someone said they plugged their jump drive into vista and had the option to use it as RAM. They said it worked great and was cheaper than buying more RAM. This immediately grabbed my attention and I started asking questions and explaining how it would be much slower than normal RAM because of latency of USB and bandwidth and how pagefile would probably be faster.
After talking some more it turns out he has 2gb of RAM anyway so I'm sure he never even used the jump drive for RAM.
My question though, is this is cheap option for anyone who needs RAM? Can it be done with XP? I said it most likely was a gimmick to get joe six pack to buy but I wanted to hear what you all say or know about it.
*edit* anyone know of any software to test it out on? I'll try it but I can't find anything.
After talking some more it turns out he has 2gb of RAM anyway so I'm sure he never even used the jump drive for RAM.
My question though, is this is cheap option for anyone who needs RAM? Can it be done with XP? I said it most likely was a gimmick to get joe six pack to buy but I wanted to hear what you all say or know about it.
*edit* anyone know of any software to test it out on? I'll try it but I can't find anything.
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