USB sticks as RAM to increase System Memory

[Ikshud]

HI,
I recently read one artcile saying that vista having on feature that enables us to use the USB pen drives as additional RAM in system. How to achieve it? will it really work as RAM?

[Fabian]

You are talking about readyboost?

Follow the following procedure:

• Right-click the USB stick and select properties.
• Click on the Readyboost tab on the properties menu and check Do not restest this device. Click okay and unplug the stick from your computer.
• open regedit by the start menu and typing regedit
  
• Navigate to following entry :
  

• HKLM (Local Machine) -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> EMDgmt.

• Double click on Device Status and change the value to 2, then ok. Do the same for ReadSpeedKBs and WriteSpeedKBs, changing their values to both 1000.
  
• Now all that's left to do is put the stick back in and once again go to the device properties (Computer > Right-click on drive). If you look under the Readyboost Tab, you'll be able to now select Use this device.

[Raiz]

Refer to following threads:

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...nce/607457.htm
What is Windows ReadyBoost and does it improve performance?
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/946238.htm
Best file system format for ReadyBoost

Good luck

[deoWo]

Readyboost is the feature of Vista to increase performance but the USB drives doesn't works as RAM.

USB Memory Sticks use a different memory technology typically called "flash ram", which does exactly that. It's called "flash" because the memory contents are loaded, and then a special signal is sent that, in a sense, tells the memory to "remember this, now". It's kind of like taking a picture with a flash on your camera ... the picture "remembers" the state of everything when the flash went off. Flash BIOS is called that for the same reason - it's just flash memory that contains your computer's BIOS.

So USB RAM sticks, memory sticks, key chain drives, geek sticks, whatever you call them, are great for portable data storage. But increasing your system's memory is an entirely different proposition.