Other Help Topics :: How to use toram option

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I know that if you are starting off of a USB flashdrive, you have a limited number of writes before a block goes bad. So those are good options for a USB-stick, but what do they do?

But surely you're not actually changing much when you're running dsl off your usb stick? I mean, you don't have a swap partition on it, and it mainly just reads all the os off the drive, it doesn't change it. Would it be faster with toram?

A USB key is MUCH slower than a hard drive..
A hard drive is MUCH slower than a ramdrive..

Running your OS completely loaded into ram
improves performance on any machine,
and reduces writes to ALL your devices,
It also improves write times..

73
ke4nt

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Running your OS completely loaded into ram
improves performance on any machine,

Unless your machine is very low on RAM to begin with...loading the whole system into 16mb could present a problem.

Guys,
Thanks for all the support.
dsl toram option works.

Thanks,
VK

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