What does it do?

[piemadd]

So we've all heard of the speed boost thing for Windows on a flash drive. Is it a scam or is it an actual download more ram?!?!?

 

Hey that last sentence rhymes.

[Paralectic]

you can't download more RAM..?

[ddrkreature]

I've tried using it and I saw 0% performance increase. I'm not sure it's exact function but for me, it did nothing

[Murasaki]

1 minute ago, ddrkreature said:

I've tried using it and I saw 0% performance increase. I'm not sure it's exact function but for me, it did nothing

I have used it before, utter bs.

[Ykno]

its for low spec PC's but you need a flash usb with high speed to see any diffrence and all it does is makes a page file for you so and we all know what good page files do so ye it useless unless ur pc is really shit and you have like a £50 usb with very very fast speed on it

[spellmanuk]

Bullshit with a capital B 9/10 of ten its going to malware i bet you if your have norton 360 on your PC (which you should) it would just quarantine the files the second you opened it 

[JoePro87]

The way I understand it, it uses your flash drive LIKE it's RAM. Here's the problem though...even the fastest flash drive transfers at maybe 150MB/s....compared to 8+GB/s for RAM. So...even if you actually did it, you really wouldn't see any performance increases. You'd be better off spending that money on some actual RAM.

[porina]

The feature might be of some benefit users of slower hard disks and low ram. It uses it as a cache when reading from hard disk, turning the system into something like a SSHD (not sure if it caches writes which would be higher risk). If you have tons of ram Windows will use that as a cache after initial loading anyway. If you have a SSD, it wont be of any benefit.