Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:57:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz> writes:
>
> > just a thought....
> >
> > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type
> > scenario....swap to flash first off then connventional disk later...
>
> Flash memory can only be flashed so many times before it doesn't work
> anymore. I don't know how many times this is, but it's probably not
> suitable for a swap space.
AOL. (Agreed)
Some name brand flash has fancy write feature to distribute write action
to maximize its life but still bad idea to use as swap.
Osamu
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