From: Calle Hedberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tim's suggestion to use a USB thumb-drive has merit, BUT be > aware that thumb-drives are SLOW (at least with standard USB > ports). I'm using my 1GB jetflash drive every day, but it's > much slower than for instance a harddisk or a server disk > over a standard 100Mbits Ethernet link.
I am told that ones that actually use USB 2.0 are much, much aster, but that most of the cheap ones actually use USB 1.1, which is indeed slow. However, given the finite number of lifetime write cycles provided by the flash memory in these devices, I would advise against using them routinely to hold live databases. Backups of database, sure, but not the live database files. Except perhaps for expendable demos. Tim C
