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Re: [LUG] SSD/Flash : Was Running Ubuntu from a USB Stick!

 

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:54:40 +0100
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:39:07AM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Which reminds me of someone I met years ago wanting to use a small
> > portion of his RAM as a disk so he could put his swap on it.  *Grant
> > raises an eyebrow*
> 
> RAM also doesn't have such a problem with wearing out after a limited
> number of writes. Swap on an SSD would kill it very quickly.

Which is why I'm always amused at Vista's
plug-in-a-USB-stick-to-speed-up-the-system capability.  Surely all it's
doing is using the pendrive as additional SWAP... which will kill it
quicker.

Grant.

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