Portable Apps..?

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Fri Jan 13 22:27:54 EST 2006


Just guessing, but even if it's non-volatile RAM, I would expect it to 
be faster than a hard drive as typically RAM writes are significantly 
faster than hard disk writes (think of your virtual memory cache).

-Chipp

Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I could be mistaken, but I believe the difference is also a function of 
> the type of RAM used in flash drives, since non-volatile RAM is slower 
> than the type we use in computer memory.  I.e., a USB flash drive should 
> be expected to be slower than a USB hard drive.




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