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