TIP:Use USB/Flash drive as RAM in Windows Vista:Ready to Boost Feature

This yesterday I was watching tv and thereI came to know a vista featureReady to boost its a feature which temorarily increase your ram from a removable media like Pen drives.
But pen drive should be ready for ready to boost so only latest pen drives having sticker(ready to boost) will be helpful.
How it works?
when you insert the pen drive there will be 2 options 1)media storage 2)ready to boost.
use ready to boost so temporarily RAM will be increased.
also it is tested that if you have 4 gb pen drive it will increase ram to appx. 1 gb.
that is only 25 to 50% have been used in tests posted elsewhere.

http://www.imagetor.com/show.php/18267_RAM boost.JPG

You mean that we can use PEN DRIVE as an extension to our Extension RAM in a PC ?
But pen drive speed is not that fast as RAM .. ?

But will be faster than hard drive .. I will surely buy a 8 GB Pen drive so sometimes it can help me to boost my old Pc's RAM .
Nice TIP :)

Nice information you shared Kammy, I am moving it to "Computer Article Section" as TIP.

thanks.

also be sure it is ready for ready to ram boost and confirm it from shopkeeper.

nice info.
thanks

maximum upgradation is 4gb.

Well, if same thing can be used in Windows XP then can be a good help for old PCs to give little more life.

no windows xp don't include suchan inbuilt feature but it may be possible if some software developers work on it.

Well, there are such softwares available. like .. eboostr, infact I am going to buy a Ready to Boost pen drive soon.

yrah here,s the link for it for our members.
http://www.eboostr.com/

I have fairly old PC . Will it work for me ?
I see 82801ba usb controller in device manager.
Is it USB 2.0 ?

thanks
I took it to the extent of having vesta with new pen drive.

well i have used ram boost feature but still if you upgrade your internal ram it will be better option recently i added 1GB DDR ram to my pc making it 1.5 gb and my computer is super fast now.
it costs Rs 1600 for ddr1 and Rs 900 for 1gb ddr2 ram.

if you are not sure which ram is in your pc just visit
www.crucial.com
and scan your pc you will get all the required information.

Absolutely .. having more physical RAM is the best solution, however, if you have a Flash drive then why not use it too altogether :) But if you have really plenty of RAM then no need at all.

yup you are right my pc can upgrade upto 2 gb only after that this feature may be useful.

Nice information you shared

i think it is impossible because usb speed is very slow when comparing RAM

great tip. thanks

How can we use pen drive as a RAM.