[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[David Pembrook]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM,  <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
>   
>> So my question is, how quickly am I going to kill the drive if I have a
>> swap partition?  Should I just pony up for the RAM?
>>     
>
> SSD wear leveling algorithms have been widespread since the age of
> 64MB USB flash drives.  You should have nothing to worry about.
>
> I'd still recommend the RAM upgrade, though. :-)
>
>   
Could one use a usb mem stick for swap? they are real cheep (disposable) 
and getting faster. I'd got a 2gb flash drive I've been tempted to play 
with more.