It's not memory as addressed by the system (i.e. it can't be used to increase the amount of ram that the system has to work with) - it could technically be used for virtual memory swapping if it was mounted as a volume and Windows was told to use it - but it would be slow and sloppy, since even slower ATA hard drives are faster than USB ram drives tend to be...
the somewhat longer and geekier answer is that USB flash drives tend to be slower than most modern ATA drives .. fine for cameras to write to and that sort of thing, but nothing that you would want to use as a "swap" file. it's MUCH slower than real RAM, and couldn't be used that way at all.
I'm sure someone else answered this by now but .. drive by answering it is! ;)
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Date: 2003-08-12 01:39 pm (UTC)The USB Flash drive acts as a removable hard drive when plugged into a USB port.
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Date: 2003-08-12 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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I was wondering if it could be used as memory for say a swap file.....
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Date: 2003-08-12 02:22 pm (UTC)Zathelp?
Thankyou!
short answer: no
Date: 2003-08-12 10:07 pm (UTC)I'm sure someone else answered this by now but .. drive by answering it is! ;)