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Posted by Barry Watzman on June 21, 2006, 8:28 am
Please log in for more thread options The correct place for my response is wherever I choose to put it.
M.I.5¾ wrote:
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>>The correct terminology is "PC Card" not "PCMCIA Card".
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>>You could use a PC Card drive for the swap file. However, you would NEVER
>>want to do that with a flash drive, only with a real (rotating platter
>>mechanical) hard drive. There are two issues with flash drives:
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>>First, they are horribly slow compared to real hard drives.
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>>Second, they are Flash memory, and flash memory has a limited number of
>>write cycles before it's life expectancy is used up and it fails. While
>>the number is large in terms of uses like MP3 players and digital cameras
>>(remember, the limit applies only to writes), using flash memory as a swap
>>file would destroy the flash drive relatively quickly.
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>>Also even if you had an infinitely large drive as fast as the connection
>>channel (for a PC Card, this would be PCI bus speeds, same as the internal
>>IDE hard drive), it would not be a substitute for a RAM upgrade. Once the
>>swap drive reaches about 2 to 3 times the total size of RAM, a larger swap
>>drive gives very little additional benefit.
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> And the correct place for your response is at the bottom of the post, not
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>>Urs Enke wrote:
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>>>Hi, can anyone tell me whether in XP, a PCMCIA (type-II disk/flash) drive
>>>can be used for the swap file? If so, can there at all be circumstances
>>>where this will actually benefit performance, say, in the case of heavy
>>>non-swap activity of the built-in HD?
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>>>This is about increasing performance of a Fujitsu-Siemens P1120
>>>subnotebook, which at least officially cannot (but unofficially can?) get
>>>a RAM upgrade.
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>>>Thanks for any comments!
>>>Urs
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