Windows XP swap file on USB Flash drive

[Yves Leclerc]

Has anyone ever tried to move the XP swap file onto a USB flash drive.
People always recommend placing the swap file on the fastest drive you have
installed. Does that include USB flash drives (they are the fastest
drives?)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, you cannot relocate the swap file to a USB flash drive.
Your system would slow down tremendously due to increased seek time.

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| Has anyone ever tried to move the XP swap file onto a USB flash drive.
| People always recommend placing the swap file on the fastest drive you have
| installed. Does that include USB flash drives (they are the fastest
| drives?)
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| Y.
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[Mike]

And if the flash drive is removed....

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I have internal USB hot-swap ports.

And if the flash drive is removed....

 

[root]

No, you cannot relocate the swap file to a USB flash drive.
Your system would slow down tremendously due to increased seek time.

Wacko!

 

[root]

Has anyone ever tried to move the XP swap file onto a USB flash drive.
People always recommend placing the swap file on the fastest drive you have
installed. Does that include USB flash drives (they are the fastest
drives?)

The bandwidth of USB is modest but ok compared to most current HDs. The
advanatge would be in the seek time. Try it and tell us all how it works.
Big iron servers use solid-state disks for swap and temp drives to great
advantage so why not a USB solid-state disk.

 

[root]

Has anyone ever tried to move the XP swap file onto a USB flash drive.
People always recommend placing the swap file on the fastest drive you have
installed. Does that include USB flash drives (they are the fastest
drives?)

A quick check of some specs shows that they have SLOW transfer rates
(<10MB/sec.) and the biggest one is around a GB. Just add a GB of mobo RAM
or a fast HD. Here's what real solod-state disks look like:
http://www.dynamicsolutions.com/disk_sys_ssd.htm