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11 Sep 2008, 1:46 pm

One of my flash drives, the 4 GB one, when you plug it in to a USB port, it can increase system resources but when I plug in the 16 GB one, it won't do that. Os there any way to make the 16 GB one do it too?



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11 Sep 2008, 2:03 pm

I don't see how it would increase system resources as USB2 has a throughput of about 60MBps maximum. Internal hard drives have an average speed of 40MBps. Burst caching is what enables to use of up to around 180MBps (1.5Gbps) which is much faster.

Unless you wish to explain what you mean in more detail?



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11 Sep 2008, 2:06 pm

Some of the flash drives are constructed much better and are designed so that vista can buffer to them. I believe it acts as a mini page file.


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