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Superfetch and Readyburst for Vista

Feb 6, 2007 2:47PM PST

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Well...
Feb 7, 2007 2:34AM PST

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. Happy
John

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THANKS
Feb 7, 2007 4:50AM PST

I'll keep it in mind as an option though.