Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?

On 8/19/2009 1:08 PM PT, Swifty typed:

Yeah, I thought I could speed up XP's boot up like Vista's ReadyBoast
with one of those USB Flash sticks/drives.

It is conceivable that you could add a solid-state drive to your system,
and use that for your page file. I have no idea if such a drive would
work well in that configuration, but I've seen systems with nothing but
a solid-state drive, so it must be OK. The ones I've seen are 80Gb. You
could probably put other stuff on there as well as your page file - you
are not going to cause seek problems.

Thanks. That could be an interesting idea and faster than USB 2.0.


My system has an 80Gb C: drive, and I'm tempted to change that to a
solid-state drive if my employer fails to update my PC next January, as
was scheduled.

Haha, I remember I used to have 10 GB for C: drive and I only had like
900 MB free. I had to replace the HDD due to that.

Bummer on upgrading office computers. I know that feeling since mine are
very old (Prescott and HyperThreading/HT P4s, single core Athlon 64
3200+, etc.).
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