The USB thumbdrives are more cost effective. However, I'm not sure about
performance. I did plan on buying a flash drive to test this feature but as
yet do not have one. If money is an issue buy the thumb drive and give it a
whirl. My guess is that actual memory will probably be faster but will cost
you about twice as much or even more at higher Gigs.
"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
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> My specs are a Compaq Presario S6000Z desktop, AMD 3000 Athlon, 1 GB
> memory, DDR 2700
>
> Vista runs OK.. I can hear every once in a while what sounds like
> either a fan kicking on, or a hard drive spinning up for a few
> seconds. It seems to be when I access 'fresh' data - ie open a file on
> my hard drive. I don't think it's hard drive, as I can see the file I
> opened before I hear the whir.
>
> One peeve is swapping. I did set a 1500 meg swap file on my primary
> drive, but very often, Vista will hang, and I can see the hard drive
> light going crazy.
>
> I can sometimes alt-tab, but often, once I select the app to switch
> to, the drive just goes crazy.
>
> So my question is, what's a better investment, 1 gb of memory (I now
> have 1 gig in 2 512 sticks and 2 slots total on my machine, so I could
> get 1.5 gigs total, the new 1 gig stick and 512 in the other slot) or
> say a USB thumbdrive?
>
> I'm looking at a 1 GB stick for about $50 or a 2 gb thumb drive (
> http://www.pricewatch.com/h/info.asp...7&aid=12003991
> )
>
> Any tips / suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Evan
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