Using your USB for RAM

[javthrower]

does this actually work: http://bloginvent.com/?p=850

 

[steaky360]

I've not tried that myself but you used to be able to supplement your PC's ram with USB mem sticks on XP I think. Although ram is fairly cheap now so I cant see why you'd really want to.

 

[tom_gr7]

It does work mate, but only really useful if ya have a low end system. I used it on my naf pc world netbook! it did work, but upgrading the ram worked ten times better!

 

[Wozza63]

Yes, its not really a good replacement for RAM, considering flash gets about 30mb/s and your average set of RAM is about 20GB/s

And I think Windows 7 does it automatically with your hard drive/SSD which is likely to have a better bandwidth

 

[mdwh]

I don't know what the first set of instructions are referring to(?), but the Windows 7 instructions are referring to Ready Boost, and it is incorrect - this isn't about adding RAM, it's about using the USB drive as a hard disk cache. This is available in Vista onwards. Info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost .

I use it sometimes on my Samsung netbook. No point if you have an SSD, like I do on my laptop.