Ram

[ShredderTitan]

This probably sounds like a stupid question, but do memory sticks count as RAM?

[camper.]

As opposed to?

[Skaggy]

Memory sticks, as in pen drives?

They are storage devices, not RAM, if that's what you're asking..

[ShredderTitan]

Well, if i have say 2gb ram, and put 2 usb memory sticks that are both 128mb, will my ram then be 2256mb?

[jesus]

memory sticks (whether USB, or the ones that go into phones or PSPs) are like small portable hard drives, not RAM. Is that what you meant? Or what?

[Kayback]

I think he means can he assign them to function as RAM.

But whatever, the answer is No. They don't access fast enough so they couldn't function as RAM, even if you could force your PC to consider them.

[ConscriptVirus]

yeah therye not very fast.

u could prob assign them to be pagefile but thats useless.

and yeah...

storage = harddisks , flash drivers/memroy sticks
memory = ram/pagefile(but pagefile is extremely slow)

[=98=]

Sounds like you have been tricked by Vista's readyboost function.

[jesus]

yeah therye not very fast.

u could prob assign them to be pagefile but thats useless.

and yeah...

storage = harddisks , flash drivers/memroy sticks
memory = ram/pagefile(but pagefile is extremely slow)

yes... pagefile is slow. we all know portable storage devices are slower than than internal hard drives, so using a portable storage device as a pagefile would be even slower!

[BPCrusher01]

For what it's worth, any solidstate memory is much faster than spindle-mounted platters, by nature of their design, and anything that is random access memory is technically RAM by definition. There are actually many fast solidstate storage devices on the market. However, it is their interface that is often slow. If you have a single-mode fibrechannel-connected solidstate drive, it's nearly as fast as BUS mounted RAM. But using a thumb drive, pen drive, or whatever you call them, is not really worth the effort to me. Maybe some people can get it to work well in Vista with readyboost, but I doubt they are seeing the benefits of internal DDR.

EDIT: RAM/ROM typo. My bad.

[Alex6714]

anything that is read only memory is technically RAM by definition.

Do you mean random access memory?

Because, as far as I know, RAM and ROM are quite different?

[=98=]

ROM implies that nothing can be written to it short of full flashing. An example of that is the 8mb BIOS chip.

[Gen.Vlade]

This probably sounds like a stupid question, but do memory sticks count as RAM?

That's only external memory for storage.