Hi Folks, I've had a 256MB USB memory stick for a few weeks -- very useful for transferring files etc. Now -- this is twice the RAM (128MB) on my laptop. It would often be useful to have more RAM! Is there a way to extend RAM using such a device? (Something like a RAM-disk appended to hardware RAM). Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Mar-05 Time: 22:39:05 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've had a 256MB USB memory stick for a few weeks -- very useful for transferring files etc.
Now -- this is twice the RAM (128MB) on my laptop.
It would often be useful to have more RAM!
Is there a way to extend RAM using such a device?
There's no real way that I can think of, and USB is slooooooowwwwww for working as ram, the closest that I can think of is initialising it as a swap partition and using that. Of course, there's the other issue, in that there's only a certain number of times that you can write to a USB memory stick, and so it would get 'worn out' very quickly and fail. Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCOhZ+Eh8oWxevnjQRAq2XAKDDgd/YTtYlFroQOPopJm7ngvt5VwCgp41X l6Qr/7nDZNaPrc7Czzs9s24= =FdlM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Unfortunately there's 2 problems - first, flash memory has limited number of writes in its life. not a problem with file copies, but using it as swap space would be a killer secondly, usb1 is even slower than a hard drive, so you'd be better off with a normal swap space. usb2 is quicker, but still not "quick" Ewan (Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've had a 256MB USB memory stick for a few weeks -- very useful for transferring files etc.
Now -- this is twice the RAM (128MB) on my laptop.
It would often be useful to have more RAM!
Is there a way to extend RAM using such a device?
(Something like a RAM-disk appended to hardware RAM).
Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted.
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:58:27 +0000, Ewan Leith <ewan@bcs.org> wrote:
Unfortunately there's 2 problems - first, flash memory has limited number of writes in its life. not a problem with file copies, but using it as swap space would be a killer
secondly, usb1 is even slower than a hard drive, so you'd be better off with a normal swap space. usb2 is quicker, but still not "quick"
I can give you some handy hints on how to extend a swap partition :-))))))))) Jenny
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