moving page file to USB 2.0 flashdrive?

someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...

and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?

carl feredeck wrote:
> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>
> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?
>
>

If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

John.

"John" <> wrote in message
news:46a0d468$0$15860$...
> carl feredeck wrote:
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?
>
> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

No, you can't. That is *never* a good idea.

Mike

No.

John

carl feredeck wrote:

> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>
> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?
>
>

John wrote:

> carl feredeck wrote:
>
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?
>>
>
> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.

That is a bad idea and in most cases counterproductive.

John John

Mike wrote:
> "John" <> wrote in message
> news:46a0d468$0$15860$...
>> carl feredeck wrote:
>>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be
>>> better...
>>>
>>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>>> better?
>>
>> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.
>
> No, you can't. That is *never* a good idea.
>
> Mike
>

Mike, I can assure you that I am doing on the machine I am using right
now and have been for a long time with no problems.

John.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:52 +0300, carl feredeck wrote:

> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>
> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even better?

No - because USB is slow.

John John wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> carl feredeck wrote:
>>
>>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be
>>> better...
>>>
>>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>>> better?
>>>
>>
>> If you have enough RAM, you can do away with the pagefile all together.
>
> That is a bad idea and in most cases counterproductive.
>
> John John

Explain please.

John.

If USB is slow why then does vista have READYBOOST?

Something fishy is going on here


"ray" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:59:52 +0300, carl feredeck wrote:
>
>> someone asked if moving the pagefile to a second drive would be better...
>>
>> and now I am asking if putting it on a usb flashdrive would be even
>> better?
>
> No - because USB is slow.
>

"John" <> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
> Mike, I can assure you that I am doing on the machine I am using right now
> and have been for a long time with no problems.

Then you must have a *lot* of RAM and not doing much with the computer.
You will always get better performance with paging than without. Windows
is desgined that way.

Mike