Can We Increase Xp Performance By Attaching Pen Drive ?

[saurabh kakkar]

Hi
I Have Come To Know That Windows Vista Performance Can Be Increased By Attaching External Memory Devices Like Pen Drive . Is This True ? If Yes Then How (will It Affect Pen Drive Life Cycle) ?
Also
Can We Increase Xp Performance In The Same Way ?

[~Phenom~]

^^i dont think its true.

[AshishSharma]

Well I read this on MS long back (can't track any link or page now ) but Windows Vista can use USB 2.0 Pen Drive as RAM or as the swap partition to speed up the computer .... Don't know if it could be effective at all .... ???

Don't know if it actually does bcz I read it long before Vista Release it was kinda "will be there" feature ....

Abt XP naah I don't think so else our "SPEED UP UR XP" articles must've covered them by now

[phreak0ut]

I did see a review of Vista where he showed that a pen drive can act as extra RAM. So, more RAM, increase in performance ain't it? This technology is called ReadyBoost. You can read more about it here This feature can't be done in XP, atleast not for now

[nishant_nms]

No chance as ReadyBoost is only Vista feature

[Pathik]

yea... readyboost is only a vista feature..
neways its crap...

[cranky]

I don't get it guys, correct me if i'm wrong, we do have something called virtual memory in XP right?? that (in simple terms) uses hard disk space as memory, so what's new if I plug in a USB drive? isn't it same as virtual memory

[rajasekharan]

ready boost caches files to usb from turbocache . . as these files are smaller in size and accessing smaller files in random from usb is faster than hdd. you get smaller boost . you cannot use that trick in xp as accessing larger files (like using it as virtual memory )is slower than hdd. if you want performance in vista or xp up the RAM dont think any thing else

[vinit suri]

dude....i hav no knowledge abt this but i guess it require a complete drive which is not used by ne other program.....ne ways just a guess

[Vishal Gupta]

ReadyBoost helps in booting Vista faster. And its not possible in XP.

[Saket Parekh]

i think it is possible in XP wit some external software....... it will take the Usb as a Ram

[ApoorvKhatreja]

It may increase speeds, but it will drastically decrease the life of you pen drive.

[Pathik]

not possible

[Saket Parekh]

tat true......... it will decrease the life of pen drive....... bt the cost of pen drive is much cheaper than tat of speed

[ApoorvKhatreja]

^^^
?!? I'm confused, dude. If you think more speed is important and not money, then why don't you buy a new RAM stick instead? It'll prove cheaper and moreover it is meant for that purpose.

[Saket Parekh]

good........ bt if u not workinig permenetantly on the same pc.... thn my idea works