[geeks] Flash drive questions

[James Fogg]

> Anyone noticed the "feature" that lets you use a USB 2.0
> thumbdrive as an extension of system RAM, to speed-up your
> system? I'm going to tinker with that on a test box with less
> RAM (my current box has 2 Gigs)...


Sounds like a bad solution to a non-problem.

Virtual memory swap space on a fixed disk is much faster than
flash-anything could ever be. And if you unplugged your thumbdrive you'd
have to world's most unstable system, no matter what OS you run.

The only place I could see this as useful is in a system that had no
fixed disk for some reason.