It's called SuperFetch, it needs to be explicitly enabled and you can
only use one USB drive in its current incarnation.
I've played with it and in limited memory scenarios (<512MB) it
actually increases application loading performance quite a bit.
Choosing between flash memory with access times measured in
microseconds and a hard drive where access is in milliseconds I know
which one I'd choose for storing data that needs to be accessed quickly.
Mal
On 12/04/2006, at 1:53 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
In a practical sense? This will probably never affect flash memory
in any way unless you used it as swap space for a Dell computer
running Windows XP with 128M of RAM.
LOL! one word "MS-Vista".
to elaborate in case you haven't seen it - the current build of
vista amalgamates all read/writable "disk space" for swap files
and caching including any thumbdrives that have the misfortune of
being plugged in to it.
oh how slow it goes when it tries to do swap files to your poor
little USB thumb drive you've just pugged in!
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