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Can adding external memory to my computer increase its speed?

April 26, 2017add-ons Computer Computers external hardware increase internet memory

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Can adding external memory to my computer increase its speed?

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If you are talking about any other operating system bar Vista then it has to be internal memory (RAM) that you add. with Vista, Microsoft decided to take advantage of the fact that large capacity USB 2.0 memory sticks/flash drives are widely available, relatively inexpensive, and very efficient—not as efficient as physical memory, but much faster than a hard disk. When you insert a USB 2.0 memory stick into a Windows Vista system, SuperFetch will be able to redirect any prefetched data that is being sent to virtual memory to the USB drive rather than the hard disk. As such, when it comes time to retrieve the data and return it to memory, the retrieval operation will be much quicker.