Using USB flash as swap space.

[Ray Parrish]

Fred Roller wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 21:22 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently read an article that states that using a USB flash drive
>>>       
>> as 
>>     
>>> swap space can help speed up a low memory system since the flash
>>>       
>> drive 
>>     
>>> is faster than a hard drive.
>>>       

>>> He's right.  Flash wears out from write operations and though it does
>>> make for a decent swap just be prepared for it to wear out.  With heavy
>>> use the studies have shown about an 8 month life span.  I will see if I
>>> can dig up the articles for this information, it's been a while.
>>>       
Hello again,

Here is an article on USB Flash drives on Wikipedia.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#File_system>

They claim a million write operations for "some of them", which I 
suppose could be easily done in 8 months on an actively used system like 
mine.

My attraction is the price of $12.99 for a 2 gig drive at Crucial.com 
compared to around $83 for 2 gig of RAM. On my low budget that's an 
enticement, however it may be false economy considering the low life span.

Later, Ray Parrish

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