Comments on: Top Uses For a USB Flash Drive

By: Cheap USB Flash Drives

Cheap USB Flash Drives — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:24:00 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:58:50 +0000

Not a chance it is quicker to access a USB stick than RAM. The architecture of the computer precludes it – data would have to be loaded from the USB stick TO RAM before it can be used. RAM is designed to be the fastest storage to access short of cache or the CPU registers. You'd be better off to supplement your RAM with MORE RAM. I'm sure in some (very specific) situations it makes a difference but Readyboost still sounds like a scam to me.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:00:35 +0000

I don't think I am ready to go to a stick drive for my backup. I can't begin to tell you how many of those I have misplaced around the house. I guess if I ever move, we will find most of them.What I like are the Western Digital Elements drive with the 1.5 or 2 TB backup. That will let me back up all three of my computers onto one drive with plenty of space left. When I buy or build a new computer, then it will be a simple matter to restore my data files as well as my apps.Another drive I like is the Seagate FreeAgent Extreme I have long been a fan of the Seagate drive though some of them tend to be a bit noisy which is not a problem unless I am dealing with video.There are many USB portable drives from which to choose and the price has literally fallen through the floor.

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:05:22 +0000

Ok First of all wikipedia. Not exaclty the most reliable source of information since anyone can change it. But even if its reliable the thumb drives aren’t ment to replace RAM they are ment to supliment it. Its easier for a computer to draw information of a flash stick then a hard drive or RAM because they are designed for quick access of information Ram and Rom memory are ment to store more and take longer to search

By: Dave Jones

Dave Jones — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:53:06 +0000

You also need to make sure that you copy the .pst file to the new computer (this file contains all of the emails received by that person). Perform a search on that PC for any files ending .pst and copy them to a safe location. Then copy that file back to the ame location on the new PC.

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By: ding42

ding42 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:41:25 +0000

@Dale
Go to the file menu of Outlook and use the export feature. Just export everything to the default outlook file type (can’t remember what it’s called, starts with a p). Then just import that file into the new install with that same export/import feature.

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:42:25 +0000

I work on the computers at my elementary school. Periodically, I switch out computers that the teachers use. How do I move what is in their Outlook on the old machine to their new machine without losing anything?

Thanks.

By: Vino

Vino — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:49:12 +0000

Readyboost only really helps computers with small amoutns of memory, like 512mb. But 1GB and higher workstations don’t require the facility of Readyboost. It seems like it has been made redundant by cheap memory if you ask me.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:30:17 +0000

This is very true. I ordered my “readyboost” drive, and while I can still use it as a high capacity flash drive, I was half expecting to see amazing things. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice any visible difference at all! If you do a search for “readyboost stats” etc then the figures really are damming!

By: Blue

Blue — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:49:56 +0000

(correction) 16MB/sec USB 2.0