AlienX

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thats one of the craziest thing Ive heard in my life...

How is this even possible. ? Flash memory has a very high latency in read & specially in writing compared to DRAMs (RAMs basically). & USB bus has a very narrow bandwith & speed compared to the memory bus in the system.

May be you've heard it wrong.. ? & might be used for some back up processing... But i dont think in real time system RAM its possible
 

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AlienX said:
thats one of the craziest thing Ive heard in my life...

How is this even possible. ? Flash memory has a very high latency in read & specially in writing compared to DRAMs (RAMs basically). & USB bus has a very narrow bandwith & speed compared to the memory bus in the system.

May be you've heard it wrong.. ?

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

read the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
vista can handle it
 

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Yep. Its not used as main system memory.

Just a replacement for the swap. coz there is no god damn way of using flash memory as RAM. The reason is what I mentioned before in my post

you should have called it using flash drive as "Swap" memory. Coz there is a big differance in the meaning of RAM & Swap memory. In this case its swap memory & not RAM. In windows you call it like page file, linux systems you call it swap. Basicaly the same concept with few differances :).


Cheers,
& thanx for the article :)