Post: Upgrade RAM using a USB flashdrive
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02-12-2011, 07:14 PM
#1
Toon_Squad
Banned
How to Upgrade Your RAM Using a USB Flashdrive
Upgrading your RAM will make your computer run more efficiently. Games, internet browsing and application speeds will increase.
1.) Plug your flash drive into one of the USB ports. Make sure you have no important files saved to the flash drive. The higher the memory on the flash drive, the more RAM you can add to you computer, however, certain computers can only use so much.
2.) Click Start > Computer > Right Click your flash drive > Properties
3.) Go to the Ready Boost tab and check the "Use this device." box. Now drag the slider all the way to the right, so you can use your flash drive to it's full potential. Click apply then Ok.
As you can see I have added 1902 megabytes of RAM, which is almost 2 Gigs.
4.) Now just to check if everything worked open up your flash drive and you should have a ReadyBoost file located inside of it.
And there you go your computer should now run more smoothly! Remember the more RAM you add the more of a difference you should see in performance.
Some IMPORTANT Things:
-The RAM added will not show up in your installed memory because it is "Virtual memory".
-Do not unplug your flashdrive while your computer is on, turn off before unplugging. Computer may crash if unplugged while computer is on.
-You can use as many flashdrives as you have USB ports.
-I recommend changing the name of you flashdrive to something involving "RAM" so you don't save any files to it.
Thanks for reading please Rate thread and comment.
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Toon_Squad ; 02-14-2011 at 08:48 PM.
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02-23-2011, 11:57 PM
#83
Toon_Squad
Banned
Originally posted by UP
There's nothing negative about it since it's using the flash drive as added pagefile. You can actually even pull the drive out without doing a safe removal and it will just push everything back to the pagefile. So it's pretty safe all around
If the information in it was correct I could see that
If the information in it was correct I could see that
so help me put right information :p
02-24-2011, 02:03 AM
#84
Oneup
Guest
Originally posted by MrFancyHacker
so help me put right information :p
Originally posted by UP
Ready boost doesn't add the flash drive to ram, it's basically adding to the the pagefile. And no that is not true, ready boost really only impacts machines already running minimal ram so 512mb - 1GB is where you will see the most in performance from using it. People above that will hardly notice the change.
This isn't a substitute for ram and shouldnt be use as such.
This isn't a substitute for ram and shouldnt be use as such.
Originally posted by UP
Learn how windows works please, virtual memory is pagefile. And ready boost doesn't take effect till you log in, so him saying it "starts faster" is a placebo effect.
Originally posted by UP
Im just stating the facts because I actually know what it does rather then act like I do.
The only reason you would see this being faster is because of things going straight to pagefile it will instead goto the flash drive which on a low end system with a crappy harddrive will be faster since there isn't a seek time on flash memory. Hence why SDD's outperform most SATA drives. But if you have a fast Harddrive and decent hardware this is pointless.
Please don't turn a blind eye to something simply because you don't like the fact that someone pointed out the flaws in your claims, man up and at least correct those problems
The only reason you would see this being faster is because of things going straight to pagefile it will instead goto the flash drive which on a low end system with a crappy harddrive will be faster since there isn't a seek time on flash memory. Hence why SDD's outperform most SATA drives. But if you have a fast Harddrive and decent hardware this is pointless.
Please don't turn a blind eye to something simply because you don't like the fact that someone pointed out the flaws in your claims, man up and at least correct those problems
I already pretty much did
02-24-2011, 10:44 PM
#85
Toon_Squad
Banned
02-26-2011, 05:02 AM
#88
Toon_Squad
Banned
02-26-2011, 04:26 PM
#90
mw3modderman
Gym leader
Originally posted by MrFancyHacker
How to Upgrade Your RAM Using a USB Flashdrive
Upgrading your RAM will make your computer run more efficiently. Games, internet browsing and application speeds will increase.
1.) Plug your flash drive into one of the USB ports. Make sure you have no important files saved to the flash drive. The higher the memory on the flash drive, the more RAM you can add to you computer, however, certain computers can only use so much.
2.) Click Start > Computer > Right Click your flash drive > Properties
3.) Go to the Ready Boost tab and check the "Use this device." box. Now drag the slider all the way to the right, so you can use your flash drive to it's full potential. Click apply then Ok.
As you can see I have added 1902 megabytes of RAM, which is almost 2 Gigs.
4.) Now just to check if everything worked open up your flash drive and you should have a ReadyBoost file located inside of it.
And there you go your computer should now run more smoothly! Remember the more RAM you add the more of a difference you should see in performance.
Some IMPORTANT Things:
-The RAM added will not show up in your installed memory because it is "Virtual memory".
-Do not unplug your flashdrive while your computer is on, turn off before unplugging. Computer may crash if unplugged while computer is on.
-You can use as many flashdrives as you have USB ports.
-I recommend changing the name of you flashdrive to something involving "RAM" so you don't save any files to it.
Thanks for reading please Rate thread and comment.
it gives you only like barely any speed infact when i use it slows my vista down this thread pointless and it has already been posted a long time ago
02-26-2011, 06:20 PM
#91
Oneup
Guest
Originally posted by Meow
So would a 8gb usb memory stick improve it by a lot?
No it doesn't in this case more isn't better, it still works like the page file, where you should have 1.5x the amount of physical ram
Originally posted by MrFancyHacker
yeah by a lot but remember its Virtual memory
If you really don't know what you are talking about, please don't answer questions, you are giving people the wrong impression.
Originally posted by mw3modderman
it gives you only like barely any speed infact when i use it slows my vista down this thread pointless and it has already been posted a long time ago
Ready boost was introduced in vista and yes it doesn't work all that well, this was actually improved in 7, so if you actually want to use it and have it work, upgrade
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