Anyone tried boosting Windows performance by putting Swap File on a Flash drive?

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Published on 2009-12-09T04:09:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 18:01 UTC
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Windows Vista introduced ReadyBoost which lets you use a Flash drive as a third (after RAM and HD) type of memory.

It occurred to me that I could boost peformance on an old PC here w/ Win XP (32 bit, max'd at 4GB RAM) by putting it's swap file (page file) on a flash drive.

(Now, before anyone comments: apparently Flash drives (10-30MB/s transfer rates) are slower than HDD (100+ MB/s) (I'm asking that as a separate question on this forum).

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