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Interesting Idea, Cheap RAM Boost

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  • 03-02-2006 11:13am
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    joshcork
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    An interesting idea, (I think Mircosoft are using it in Vista) is it possible to use a USB flash memory stick as extra ram for the system is there any utility out there that can make this happen would be very cool.


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    po0k
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    Performance would be terrible, you'd be better off using the pagefile on the hard-drive, and the pendrive would die pretty quickly due to the excessive amount of writes.


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    WizZard
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    Not to my knowledge. I hardly think it would be beneficial tbh, as the transfer limits of USB are meagre compared to direct disk, or RAM access.


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    gline
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    WizZard wrote:
    Not to my knowledge. I hardly think it would be beneficial tbh, as the transfer limits of USB are meagre compared to direct disk, or RAM access.

    yeh this would actually slow down the pc and not speed it up.
    Cheaper to buy extra ram then a pendrive anyway :)


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    astrofool
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    one guy managed to get 4 pen drives raided using Linux, must look up the article :)


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    astrofool wrote:
    one guy managed to get 4 pen drives raided using Linux, must look up the article :)
    yeah raid's been done on Jaz disks (and 1.44MB floppies :eek: )

    How about 4GB of cheapo RAM that thinks its a SATA drive, use as a nice fast swap file / %temp% folder. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1
    it's unlikely you'll want to waste high-end memory on the i-RAM. You see, the i-RAM's Serial ATA controller is limited to 150MB/s transfer rates, creating a bottleneck that will constrain performance long before memory speeds or latencies enter the picture. In fact, even DDR200 memory has ample bandwidth to saturate the i-RAM's Serial ATA interface.


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    Matt Simis
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    yeah raid's been done on Jaz disks (and 1.44MB floppies :eek: )

    How about 4GB of cheapo RAM that thinks its a SATA drive, use as a nice fast swap file / %temp% folder. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1


    Im waiting for the second Gen I-RAM, with SATA 300 and 8 DDR slots, 4x 1GB sticks arent too cheap right now, but lotsa people have a load of 512MB sticks.


    Matt


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    KdjaCL
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    Did Adobe ever get round to getting their products to run off internal Flash Ram?

    Now software running off Flash ram that would be nice but expensive.


    kdjac


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    KdjaC wrote:
    Did Adobe ever get round to getting their products to run off internal Flash Ram?

    Now software running off Flash ram that would be nice but expensive.


    kdjac
    Ah the old days when you could do a network install, or run from CD. Foxit reader FTW ;)


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