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Topic: Memory Speed Issues, Which is faster?

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vhangell

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Posted: Aug. 13 2005,22:11

I dont have enough memory on my new 'oldlaptop' and I can't buy old rams so... I'm adding more swap space.
Can I use a usb drive as a swap partition. Then which would be a faster swap partition? An ordinary (not high rpm drives) hdd, a usb1.1 flash disk, usb2.0 flash disk. Or are there other better solutions, aside from getting RAM?
I dont want to run out of mem space especially when routing PCBs and circuit simulations. thnx!

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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 14 2005,02:59

Use the ordinary hdd

Flash drives are not recommended for swap partition or swap file.

They will fail due to too many disk write commands.

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Posted: Aug. 14 2005,03:01

Using a flash disk as swap is a bad idea. It will be faster than a harddrive, but it will die quickly. Solid state devices are currently limited to 1-10 million writes per sector, which will run out fairly quickly when using them as swap.

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Posted: Aug. 14 2005,13:52

ok thnx. i better look at surplus shops for old memory.

one more thing, after hd-install. what can I do to remove the hardware detection/autoconfiguration. Lets just say that I know all my devices and every modules I would need to use,and want to set everthing manually, no hardware detection, everything just set manually. How can i go about doin' this.

Is it worth it, in terms of speed that I will/might gain during the boot process? What else could you advise to speed things up? Thanks again!

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