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Using flash drive (USB drive) as Ram?

Is using USB flash drives to speed up your system the same as adding RAM?

  • I have some spare USB flash drives so I put them in the USB slots in my computer and chose the option to speed up my system. Is that the same as adding RAM?

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    In a word, no. However, you might have got confused over the technology "Readyboost", which, from W Vista on, could use a flash drive as a cache, which, sometimes, could speed up some windows operations. The actual memory in USB and RAM is very similar, however, the interface connecting the memory to the computer is very different, with USB (at around 60Mb per sec) being very much slower than the ram interface, (at around 12 gigabytes per sec). If you want more info, you will find a couple of articles on Wikipedia which are informative.

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No. Ram is internal memory on the motherboard. USB are external storage devices. They do different things.

Texperson

USB is an external portable device use to move data while ram is the Internal memory.....

Smarty

noooo no no son thats a misconception.

Huh?

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