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Re: [LUG] Swap hard drive?

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> A cool 4G of swap at 0.1ms access time!
> This would fiz your pc up a bit as swap:
> http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=494667
> Anyone tried anything like that?

Assuming it's Flash memory I'd be a bit worried about the number of 
writes, particularly if it's being used for swap!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations

Cheers

Paul


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