Will a memory stick slow down my laptop?

[Richie]

Hey guys,
I was talking to people on habbo and i was gonna delete all my music off my laptop and save it on a memory stick, i want to do this to possibly speed up my computor people on habbo said it will slow down my laptop rather than speed it up, would i really slow down my laptop ?

[cocaine]

probably, as your laptop will have to play music from an external source, rather than having it stored on the hard drive itself.

though i dont know much about it.

[N!ck]

If you're just playing music then you won't notice any speed difference. All you're doing is freeing up a little space on your hard drive

[parky1306]

If your pen drives plugged in then usually itl slow down your laptop, however, if when it loads up and you get the option to Open folder to view files, Play using WMP, etc you should see an option 'Speed up system using ...'

Try that option, it might speed it up ;]

[Blinger1]

If your pen drives plugged in then usually itl slow down your laptop, however, if when it loads up and you get the option to Open folder to view files, Play using WMP, etc you should see an option 'Speed up system using ...'

Try that option, it might speed it up ;]
You are completely contradicting what N!ck just said..

I have never seen my laptop slow down from using an USB stick. Although it might get slow if i try and read big files of it with Photoshop (but that could just be Photoshop)

[parky1306]

How am i?
If your pen drive is plugged in and your running vista and your browsing the files or have documents open, its known to slow your laptop down, thats why you get the System Ready Boost option thing

[N!ck]

How am i?
If your pen drive is plugged in and your running vista and your browsing the files or have documents open, its known to slow your laptop down, thats why you get the System Ready Boost option thing

How does it slow it down :S. The limiting factor would be the bandwidth of the flash drive, which would be pretty much unnoticeable anyway. Other than that every thing's the same. System Ready Boost has been proven to actually slow your system down in all but very specific system configurations.

[Richie]

Its just for my music and il be playing songs from my memory stick through sam broadcaster, so i really dunno what to do the one thing i doont want to do is make my laptop slower

[Laggings]

It will not make it any slower. I do the same exact thing. It's just like plugging in a new drive to the computer. Don't worry man, you'll be fine :D

[Richie]

It will not make it any slower. I do the same exact thing. It's just like plugging in a new drive to the computer. Don't worry man, you'll be fine :D


Thanks but will it make it any faster

[Laggings]

Not really, as it's still pulling the music from somewhere. It might make your computer faster if the music is in the gigabytes. But I doubt it.

[Richie]

Not really, as it's still pulling the music from somewhere. It might make your computer faster if the music is in the gigabytes. But I doubt it.

So i might aswell leave my music on my laptop as it would be more suffient and it would not make a difference anyway?

[Laggings]

The only thing that would be noticeable would be some extra space on your computer, depending on the amount of music you have.

[paul4wolves]

The short answer is: NO.