It may be reasonable to do so on a USB 3.0 thumb drive, but I probably wouldn't bother on USB 2.0. Windows manages the pagefile to optimize for streaming speed, not seek speed.
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Serenella Ciongoli <[email protected]>wrote: > According to this site > http://ask-leo.com/what_is_**pagefilesys_and_can_i_move_it.**html<http://ask-leo.com/what_is_pagefilesys_and_can_i_move_it.html> > you could allocate your pagefile tu a thumb drive, but it is > not wise to do so, because of the USB speed. The same reasoning > would apply to using it as a RAM drive. > > The page gives instructions on how to assign a different pagefile.sys > in W7. The instructions are identical in XP. > > Serenella Ciongoli > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeffrey Race wrote: > > Is there some save way to use a thumb drive as RAM or as a >> location for a paging file (WXP or W7)? >> How? Gotchas? >> Jeffrey Race >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
