[nzlug] machine pre loaded with linux

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 10:10, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> However, flash is relatively slow, and has a limited write lifetime.
It's faster than disk for random reads though, which would be nice.

I also don't think the lifetime is as bad as is often made out, also it's 
likely to just be unused stuff sent to swap, so I'd expect that it wouldn't 
get a great deal of writing to, unless you were thrashing. Vista has 
something that sounds like putting swap on USB (although apparently isn't 
quite). Anyone know how that works?

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