Slow, unweildy, and possibly much much slower than virtual memory since my RAID at home can sustain 109 MB/sec (tested with Sandra) and the fastest flash drives (I have a Sandisk Cruiser titanium) sustain about 15 MB/sec. The only thing missing would be the clickity clack of the hard drive if you used Readyboost.

Maybe in the future this will be a good idea when flash memory and its USB interface goes faster than mechanical drives, but for the short term - its a major major major (did I emphasize that enough?) downgrade to using your hard drive instead.

-S

PS. A single normal generic 300 GB or so hard drive by the way can still sustain 40 to 50 MB/sec no problem.

I've never used Vista, don't want to and never will do. And if I am forced to I will have Bernard fire me out a torpedo tube strapped to a torpedo!

Hate it. It's all eye candy and not reliability. There's tons of games, programs, and utilities (i.e. printers, scanners, etc.) that are not compatible with it, and there are even more that ARE compatible, although they tend to be a pain to try and install. Vista was a big let-down. Hopefully, Microsoft's next major operating system will be much better.

That's a big 'hopefully' there, mate.