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Is it faster to have my old computer use the hard drive, or would a USB drive be faster for virtual memory?

Asked by RocketGuy (15239points) May 18th, 2011

I have an old computer with 750MB of RDRAM. It’s too expensive to upgrade with more RAM. I gave it to my kids. Just using Firefox, it starts dipping into virtual memory. Is it faster to have my old computer use the hard drive, or would a USB drive be faster for virtual memory?

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