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noticable difference between stat pagefile and flash usb?

xman2007

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thinking of getting a flash usb drive, nothing fancy just a 1gb usb drive to store my page file on, is there gonna be any noticeable difference than having my pagefile on a seperate sata 150 hdd as i have at the moment ?
 
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I think that having a pagefile on a USB drive is supposed to be bad for performance...

Read this thread.
 
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Well a pagefile is basically used as RAM, as you know RAM needs to be accessed fast. USB both lacks access times and bandwidth. Do your own math.
 
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ok blow that idea, im building my new rig soon anyway (current one on fleabay yippeeeeee :laugh: ) , just thinking of somthing to spend my £40 argos gift vouchers i got as a gift on lol :rockout: might just go with a divx dvd player.
 
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they are bad, but easy to install and have many uses, mine runs small games like gta and suchlike no problems however i wouldnt recomend this!!! its to have your games on a fixed drive!!

watching films playing music no problem!i would say its about half he speed of a ide, thats what it feels like!altho mine is full! make surde you get one with a fan aswell as they do get warm, and you dont want data loss!
 
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regan1985 said:
they are bad, but easy to install and have many uses, mine runs small games like gta and suchlike no problems however i wouldnt recomend this!!! its to have your games on a fixed drive!!

watching films playing music no problem!i would say its about half he speed of a ide, thats what it feels like!altho mine is full! make surde you get one with a fan aswell as they do get warm, and you dont want data loss!
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usb flash drive with a fan, enlighten me, is this some kind of mini pixie fan :roll:
 
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