' Wrote:You do know thats more RAM than you'll ever need, right?
Like no one will ever need more than 512k of memory...
Anyway, using a usb/thumb/jumpdrive for ram is a horrible idea. bandwidth on a usb2.0 drive is about 480mbps, (The ram on my computer works at 8.3 gbps)
ramseektime is lower(read faster) than a normal page, but also much higher(slower) than standard ram.
read/write speeds are quite slow, not to mention most flash memory wears our rather quickly.
All that said there is no reason why you cannot do that on any other operating system besides vista if you really wanted to:
xp: system->performance->advanced->virtualmemory->add a pagefile to your thumbdrive
vista: probably some thumbdrive detected wanna make it a swapspace cancel/allow
linux: format as a swap filesystem, mount optionally add to fstab)
its possible but there is no incentive to, even though the though is still fairly new.
