Using usb pen memory stick drives with vista.

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Hey all,

I can get a 4gig memory stick for some serious cheap prices. Is this worth gettting for vista? I have read about if you stick in one of these, vista will use it as more system ram?

So would this be like adding another 4 gig to my existing 2gig? Im using vista x64 ultimate by the way.

It would just be a cheap upgrade untill, I can afford another 2 gig of gskill. :)
 
I have no experience of Vista (YET) but if you look around you can find a 4Gb USB flash drive for £20! I would go for it :)
 
Yeah I know, I can get one for £18.98!! :eek:

This is seriously good value. I'm gonna buy it anyway dammit. :p
 
I had vista beta 2 installed laastnigh, and plugged in my 1gb flash stick, went into its properties and enabled Readyboost, set it to use 512mb, and to be honest, i did notice a little improvment. But you have to buy a drive that is readyboost compliant, has to have a specific read/write speed, otherwise the readyboost option wont appear.
 
ReadyBoost seems a bit of a gimmick to me, I noticed no difference (in fact I saw some decreases in performance) when I used a 1GB stick with my 1GB equipped laptop.

If you have using 2GB RAM, then personally I think you would be wasting your time, unless you wanted a new USB stick for storage purposes anyway?
 
It's not a gimmick. It was designed for use on laptops (because laptop hard drives have much slower seek times than a desktop hard drive). If you have a 2GB of RAM and a fast HD then you are going to struggle to see the difference with or without ReadyBoost enabled.

When enabled the system will create a page file on the memory stick and thus take advantage of the zero millisecond seek time of memory sticks.
 
NathanE said:
It's not a gimmick.
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I said it seemed it to me.

On a laptop with 1GB RAM using a 1GB USB stick I saw no difference at all, with stuff like WinRAR actually taking longer to extract files.

I appreciate it should be better, so maybe it was just my configuration that wasn't working as it should?
 
Well ive got an old 256mb stick, i plugged that in and it used it in ready boost. So getting a 4gig stick for £20 makes sense to me. :)
 
For older computers with less RAM, it seems like a good, inexpensive option. But for people who are capable of adding more RAM to their PC, it'd make far more sense to do that instead.
 
Vegetarian said:
can you do this with SD cards - I got only 512mb RAM on my laptop - would sticking a 4gig SD card do the same?
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Can only be done with internal card readers, plus Vista is very picky about the SD card you try.
 
am i missing something or couldnt you do this in xp / whatever by manually creating the pagefile on the usb, sd etc

yeah i know that when you remove the drive then vista will realise this and force the pf somewhere else
 
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