20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
12:44 p.m.
It was written...
Flash drives have a large but limited number of
erases. They make great
solid state drives but not for swap devices. For a classic system needing
a small number of mb of swap space RAM is the best answer.
Ugggg... sorry. It wasn't a swap partition I created in flash. It was an OS
install partition (to install the OS FROM, not to). I was learning the
intricacies of "label & newfs" at the time, and had quite a few attempts in
a short interval but the lexar drive died. This happened again to a second
one in short order.
So the "writing" I was doing was formatting and loading, not general use. It
didn't hold up well in this application at all. Based on my own experience,
I would only use flash for emergency storage, not for something I planned to
read a bunch - let alone write. Using it as a daily backup regimin wouldn't
be good either.
Then again, maybe I just had two bad devices in a row.
Jay