Bill Gates Keynote at the Microsoft PDC


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Wow the memory stick thing is cool!  Imagine bumping memory up +1gig from nowhere!

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I have to question the significance of this.

Using the hard disk as virtual memory is many times faster than a USB stick in a USB 2.0 port. Applications using "USB Memory" would screech to a halt.

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I have to question the significance of this.

Using the hard disk as virtual memory is many times faster than a USB stick in a USB 2.0 port.  Applications using "USB Memory" would screech to a halt.

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I would think you'd want to do this with fast USB drives...

As in, those that are much faster than your hard disk.

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I would think you'd want to do this with fast USB drives...

As in, those that are much faster than your hard disk.

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There aren't any that are faster than an internal hard drive. Your transfer rate would be capped at 480 Mb/s including USB overhead. SLOW! This is a far cry from the multiple gigabytes of bandwidth you get from modern DDR memory.

Also, flash memory has a very limited number of reads and especially writes. Using the device as memory would cause it to burn out very quickly.

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