On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 11:30 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday November 19 2007 10:39:26 am Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > It sounds like they are using the flash memory as swap. I have > > seen flash memory that was designed to plug into the > > motherboard USB header that was advertised to do the same > > thing in Vista. If this is what they are doing, then > > implementing it in Linux should be a matter of making it a > > swap partition/file. > > > > If you get the motherboard,see if it detects it as a USB > > memory drive. If so, and if you are not dual booting, it would > > be just a matter of creating a swap partition, (Or making the > > entire device one big swap device.) and add a fstab entry for > > it. You would want to give it a label, and use that in place > > of a device name. You could also do this with a standard "pen" > > drive. I am not sure about the life of the device, but it > > might be fun to try it with a flash drive you don't mind > > loosing. > > I was wondering about device life as well. It is a little card > that has a connector on one end, so, easily replacable, but... > > I'm seriously considering that laptop as my next, which I will > use for video editing in Windows - but, I always set up my > laptops as dual boot, hence the curiousity > > -- > Claude Jones > Brunswick, MD, USA > 5 years plus John Useful Product Life Product life is at least five years or 43,800 power-on hours whichever comes earlier under the following conditions: • Power-on hours: 8,760 per year • Operating Time: 100% of power-on hours • Active/Idle duty cycle: 90% of the time • 1 GB Module Write Rate: 12 GB per day (at 6 days a week, 52 weeks a year for 5 years)1,2 • Environmental: typical operating conditions Notes: 1. Write rate of 12 GB/day is multiplied by module density. Therefore a 2 GB module Write Rate is 24 GB/day and a 4 GB module Write Rate is 48 GB/day. 2. Assumes a data streaming usage model. Please contact Intel Applications Engineering for applicability of other use models. Mean Time Between Failure The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is calculated based on a Part Stress Analysis. MTBF for Intel’s Z-U130 Solid State Drives is five million hours. Conditions for the calculation are as follows: • Power-On hours: 8,760 per year • Operating time: 100% of power-on hours • Active/Idle duty cycle: 90% of the time • Environmental Conditions: typical operating ranges
