Using USB flash as swap space.

[Fred Roller]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:53 -0400, Fred Roller 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.
> > 
> > Do you have a reference of said article?
> > When and where was it published?
> >  
> > Thanks
> >   Siggy
> 
> 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.
> 

apologies, replying to:

I am no expert on this but I thought that flash may be fast reading
but is slow on write, much slower than a hard drive.
Also I believe flash wears out after a certain number of write
operations so I would not have thought its use as swap would be
appropriate.

Colin

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