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running windows on a flash drive

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Fike

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has anyone ever installed windows on a high performance flash memory format? could thatbe faster than a hard drive? With Flash prices coming down, it would seem possible to use flash for some portion of your application installations.

fike
 
Repost quite a few times over.

Bad idea; flash memory cells are only good for a few thousand access cycles. Putting an OS/swapfile on one will kill it within weeks (if not sooner). Nonvolatile memory that can take that kind of abuse costs a lot (hence sky-high prices on SSD drives).
 
Flash is actually not so great for read / write performance, it only wins big on seeks / random access.

Also, the swap file and temp files would wear out a flash drive pretty quickly given the limited number of write cycles.

What "solid state drives" normally use is dynamic RAM (SDRAM or DDRAM).

 
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