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    Vista feature with flash

    Anyone know of the vista feature where part of the important system information on RAM is moved/copied to flash allowing the system more speed or some such thing?

    Is it really useful? Does Ubuntu have anything like this?
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    Re: Vista feature with flash

    Yeah I know of it. It's speed drive something right? (I forget what Microsoft calls it). As for how usable it is. It depends on the RAM in your system. I think the tests recall, if you have less then 1 GB you'll notice alot of improvement. If you have around 1 GB you'll see small improvements. And anything more then 2 GBs and they'll be little to not noticable improvements.

    As for whether Ubuntu has it. I don't think it does.
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    Re: Vista feature with flash

    That's the most useless and dumb feature.
    Those USB-Flashdrives are slower than RAM, even slower than an internal Harddrive.
    The massive Reading and Writing is killing those sticks and cards, they only have a limited amount of writecycles, they'll die very fast if you use it.
    It's better to setup a linux-swap partition on your Harddrive, it'll last longer and be faster.
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    Re: Vista feature with flash

    It doesn't work. PC World tested it, and found ReadyBoost to not speed up the computer and that ReadyBoost drives where good drives.

    Vista should have 1 GB of RAM. (Experience here) At that point, ReadyBoost is useless.

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    Re: Vista feature with flash

    I think it's actually faster then the hard drive (you can only use certain kinds of flash memory with it. Though you could hack it to make it accept any flash drive but that negates the speed gain).

    Though yes, physical RAM is better then all. And yes it does kill your flash drive rather quickly by eating its writes and rewrites.

    I've never tried it myself though since my laptop has two GBs of RAM in it. I've just read about the tests being done with it by various PC and overclocking sites trying to see if it actually made a worthwhile difference.

    Though the swap in Linux may be better (dunno how the swap differs from a Windows' pagefile) so the need for this for a Linux OS may be slim.
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