Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Using a flash drive for virtual memory..?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler \| PC Support \| Using a flash drive for virtual memory..?
DVA6983 Captain, B737-800 Joined on February 07 2009 Century Club ""Can't, never did anything.."" Phoenix, AZ USA 125 legs, 233.4 hours 4 legs, 7.2 hours online 125 legs, 233.4 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on July 22 2010 10:18 ET by Dale Westlund
	Hey all.. I was talking tech with a friend of mine last night and was telling him about my windows 7, 32 bit OS not recognizing my 4GB of RAM, (my system only recognizes 2.75 GB of the 4 GB of RAM) and he told me that you can plug, say a 4 gig flashdrive, into a USB port and then go into the system and find the drive and specify it to be used as RAM. Does anyone here know if this is true and really works? Not that I'm doubting my friend but I've never heard of this before and if it's true I think it would probably really help my performance when using FSX.. Any comments from you computer tech guys would be greatly appreciated.. He tells me that with a 4 GB flashdrive plus the 2.75 GB that's already recognized it would be like having 6.75 GB of ram.
DVA8447 Senior Captain, L-1011-100 Joined on March 30 2010 50 State Club Double Century Club Morongo Valley, CA USA 230 legs, 353.4 hours 31 legs, 38.9 hours online 229 legs, 352.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.4 hours event	Posted onPost created on July 22 2010 12:12 ET by Phil Baker
	Dale, Yes, i believe you can, the application is called "Ready Boost" and not all usb flashdrives will be fast enough to work with it. To find out, go to Computer, then properties of the flash drive. there should be a tab that says Ready Boost Good luck!
DVA1933 Senior Captain, B727-200 Joined on September 19 2004 Triple Century Club Monterrey, NL Mexico 357 legs, 860.4 hours 72 legs, 132.3 hours online 255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS 1 legs, 1.9 hours event	Posted onPost created on July 22 2010 18:04 ET by David Eugenio Gomez
	Well two things... 1) You have a 32bit OS, that means you can only use a maximum of about 3GB. To use 4GB or more, you need to get the 64bit version. 2) I heard in Telecom class at college, that using a flash memory as RAM is not efficient, it could slow down your PC. Yes, it's possible, but it's just cheaper to buy another stick of RAM.
DVA6983 Captain, B737-800 Joined on February 07 2009 Century Club ""Can't, never did anything.."" Phoenix, AZ USA 125 legs, 233.4 hours 4 legs, 7.2 hours online 125 legs, 233.4 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on July 22 2010 18:19 ET by Dale Westlund
	Thanks guys.. I'm thinking pretty seriously about upgrading to the 64 bit version of windows 7 ultimate on Monday so that way I'll be able to add more RAM and have be usable.

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