@@@hi all i was thinking about upgrading my ram in vista can you add a usb memo stick &it will do the same job?

Question

hi all my laptop has 512mb in it i was thinking of upgrading to 1gb 2700 333 this is the only memo suitable for my hp nx6125 or so im told??its very expensive however my laptop has a internal sd slot if i was to put 2gb sd card init will it do the same job as 2gb of ram thanks all

Answer 1

I wouldn't use USB storage as paging file, it's too slow. Find out what ram you have (likely to be 667mhz or 800mhz DDR2) & buy some more of that. Don't exceed 3.5gb if you are on 32 bit Vista as it will not be available, you need 64 bit for anything more than 3.5gb. Disable programs starting up & check your task manager for tasks that do not need to be open, this is the easiest way to get some memory free (aside from installing XP).

Answer 2

I am not aware of any way to use an sd card as additional memory. However, you can use a USB flash/jump/thumb drive to enhance the memory. It does not actually add the USB memory to the RAM memory, but what it does is to move the swap file that the memory uses to the USB device, as usually those devices (since they are actually RAM memory) are much faster than a swap file on the hard drive.



Insert the stick, on then right click on its icon/listing in "My Computer" and select Properties. You will see a ReadyBoost tab where you can tell the computer to use the USB device as additional memory.



However, this is NOT as fast as increasing the actual memory within the laptop would be.

Answer 3

no ram/random access memory/ is different to memory as in an sd stick.try going to crucial.com and running thier in house program for the ram you need.they are usually cheap. ram is used by the lappy to do things faster and is cleared after use where your sd stick is used to store data.

Answer 4

Memory is not that expensive. No, an SD card will not do the same thing.

Answer 5

No you have to have the memory up grade. the bit you are talking about is storage not memory

Answer 6

Apparently you can.