Is it possible to use a storage disk (such as a USB drive) as RAM?
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My motherboard (HP Pavilion s3000y) only supports 2GB of RAM max. Which means that I can only allocate 1GB for running VMs, and applications that use a lot of RAM are slow (such as games and Visual Studio). Is it possible to use a storage disk such as a USB drive as RAM? Or if not, can VirtualBox u…
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Windows Vista and 7 support ReadyBoost which will use a fast USB drive as a cache for SuperFetch. This allows SF to work better on systems with limited RAM. This can help increase responsiveness of file I/O operations because the flash drive is much…
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