Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:12:03 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Pen Drive as Swap File? (slightly OT)
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 1:29 pm, you wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:21:44 -0500 > From: "Lawrence Fieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Pen Drive as Swap File? (slightly OT) > > I have a bunch (5) of Toshiba Satellites mostly Pentium 100s with 24MB > running WIN95 ( could run WIN98 2nd ed.). > Proprietary memory for these things is about $50 for 32MB, and that is the > maximum. Now that Pen Drives are cheap (256MB for $50) and probably > getting cheaper, I was wondering -- does it make sense to use one for a > swap file and is this possible? I would also need a USB PCMCIA card. Ungood idea, Larry. Use it as a backup device, but not as a swap device: o it's nowhere near as fast as real disk o more seriously - most flash ram has only 100k read/write cycles - which will get used up *very* quickly on a small memory machine with a lot of swapping. Windows does a *lot* of swapping. Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
