On 2/12/07, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon.jongsma at gmail.com> wrote: > > Note that this flash-drive-as-swap is supposedly one of the new > features of Windows Vista. This is from the FAQ [1]: > Q: Won't this wear out the drive? > A: Nope. We're aware of the lifecycle issues with flash drives and are > smart about how and when we do our writes to the device. Our research > shows that we will get at least 10+ years out of flash devices that we > support. > > I have no idea how long a device would last with a similar setup under linux... > > [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx This is really immaterial. They're assuming that the flash device will be used as flash devices normally are - as portable data transfer media, not as swap. It really doesn't matter which OS the device is used with...rather, it's *how* the device is used. -Erik