You've got to think of the whole chain, and unless you reall spend lots of money, most flash memory is made from mlc instead of slc.
Single layer cells use more cells and don't try to stack multiple writes to fewer cells as mlc does, so that's why they write so slow and read somewhat faster.
But no matter what you do, the usb bus gets lower priority than your ram does, and it might be ok for caching, but will never be as good as real ram.
so what you'd spend on a top flight flash drive or slc to use as ready boost, you could afford more ram, but 2 gigs is pretty buff for xp, and it's probably not worth it.
It'll be like increasing your paging file size or virtual memory but since it's on faster flash memory, it might be a bit faster, but nothing that great.
But it's your money, go ahead and experiment and see. At 06:13 PM 11/17/2011, you wrote:
When I read the specs for USB 2, it supports transfers up to 400 megs per second, if I read correctly, and yet the transfer rates to and from the thumb drives aroundhere are pitiful.The thumb drives I have are by Hitachi, a good maker, I guess, so should do okay, and yet I get only about 11 to 15 megs second on my new computer, which has USB 2 ports, not USB 3, and only 2 or 3 megs second on this other Windows 7 64 bit computer,also with USB 2 ports.I can't comprehend why there is so much difference in reading and writing to thesame USB drives on the two computers.I read an article saying you can soup up any thumb drive by reforematting it to NTFS instead of FAT32, plus right clicking on the drive and selecting Optimize For BestPerformance.Even so, I read posts in that forum claiming only 30 or 50 megs second at best. Some posts said it makes no difference, 30 or 50 megs second is a false report, caused by reformatting to NTFS, that transfer to and from the drive actually continues after the final report is displayed, and you'll lose your data if you quit too soon.Some forum posts said NTFS is no faster, even slower than FAT 32.Okay, maybe that trick works and maybe not, but where can I buy a very fast thumb drive, as fast as the medium will go, and what do I look for in designation, flashmedium class, whatever?It doesn't need to be a huge drive, no larger than 4 gigs or so, and I'm definitelynot looking for a SSD drive, just a thumb drive.I read about SD flash drives, for video cameras and such, that are fast enough torecord video live at high frame rates. That's the speed I want in a USB thumb drive. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks for any tips, Indigo L
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