In short, the flash drive would be used to store a copy of the most frequently accessed files stored in you hard drive's paging file, reducing the need to access your hard drive. Since a flash drive is faster than a hard drive this would result in greater performance, but it is still vastly slower than RAM, so it's far from a substitute. At 2GB you really should be fine and find the 1GB flash drive to offer minimal performance increase, even with 384MB being allocated for your graphics card. If you use it in that regard, however, it will not be a detriment..your hard drive will not be adversely affected.
In short, no worries, mate. ![]()
John
What do you think?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/31/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed/
If I had a 1GB mmemory stick laying around would this help performance? Could this hurt the hard drive? I will be upgrading to Home Premium soon. I have 2GB system RAM but my Geforce 7300LE turbocache video card has only 128MB dedicated RAM(512 total video RAM) Thanks

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