USB Flash Drive as RAM/VRAM in 10.6

[michael.lauden]

Hey everyone,

i have seen many people use flash drives as RAM or VRAM in Vista. i was wondering if there was a way (now that Snow Leopard is 64 Bit and can handle huge amounts of RAM) to use a flash drive as system memory.

if there was a way would it be faster than OS X using standard virtual memory on the HD?

there isn't much information about this topic as 10.6 isn't released yet, but i figured i'd ask because i have a few flash drives laying around that are >2GB


your thoughts? or am i just stupid

 

[gatepc]

It would be faster then hdd virtual ram because flash based storage devices are faster at small read/wrighting too bad I don't think OS X lets you change any system settings like that though