Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

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Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby soccerfansc » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:19 am

Hello,
Please forgive me if this has already been noted, but I didn't see it referenced anywhere...

I recently learned about the option to use a thumb drive as additional memory in XP. I am curious to know if this same method can be applied to the 2GB memory mobile drive that came with my mini 1030? If so, how can I tell if the method has worked after the restart?

Thank you in advance,
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Re: Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby voluptuary » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:06 pm

Are you confusing RAM with STORAGE?
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Re: Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby dustbuster484 » Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:43 pm

The ReadyBoost feature is a little strange. It seems to get used more like a page file then a RAM upgrade. YOu can use the mobile drive for this. To see if its working you just open the drive in question and if there is a ReadyBoost cache file in there then your using it.

To set a drive up for readyBoost simple open My computer, Right click your drive and go to properties, select the ReadyBoost tab and enable it then click apply. You can select how much of the drive to dedicate to ReadyBoost.
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Re: Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby Richboy455 » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:29 pm

dustbuster484 wrote:The ReadyBoost feature is a little strange. It seems to get used more like a page file then a RAM upgrade. YOu can use the mobile drive for this. To see if its working you just open the drive in question and if there is a ReadyBoost cache file in there then your using it.

To set a drive up for readyBoost simple open My computer, Right click your drive and go to properties, select the ReadyBoost tab and enable it then click apply. You can select how much of the drive to dedicate to ReadyBoost.


Readybost is a Vista/7 feature. It is not available in XP.
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Re: Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby billpool » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:24 pm

Richboy455 wrote:
dustbuster484 wrote:The ReadyBoost feature is a little strange. It seems to get used more like a page file then a RAM upgrade. YOu can use the mobile drive for this. To see if its working you just open the drive in question and if there is a ReadyBoost cache file in there then your using it.

To set a drive up for readyBoost simple open My computer, Right click your drive and go to properties, select the ReadyBoost tab and enable it then click apply. You can select how much of the drive to dedicate to ReadyBoost.


Readybost is a Vista/7 feature. It is not available in XP.

but...but... With eboostr and a 32GB thumb drive or a SDHC an XP user has the same capabilities... no?

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Re: Thumb Drive as RAM Upgrade

Postby xacked » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:40 pm

Fair point, can someone do an empirical (timer + pencil + notepad) evaluation of eboostr and tell me if it actually works? I'm tired of hearing people claim it makes the system a bit faster when it could just be a confirmation bias or placebo effect
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