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

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

Windows Vista introduced ReadyBoost which lets you use a Flash drive as a third (after RAM and HD) type of memory.

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Guest [Entry]

"ReadyBoost was introduced to help Windows boot faster. In the tests I read, it does not at all improve the performance of a running system.

If you have problems with swapping performance, the best way is to avoid it altogether. More RAM is way cheaper than a separate swapping drive. You can also turn off swapping by selecting a very small pagefile.

See the other questions regarding swapping."
Guest [Entry]

Swap on a flash drive is a bad idea. Flash drives only have so many read/writes before they die, and this number is much lower than for spinning disks. If you were to put a swap partition on it, you would kill the drive very quickly.