Re: [Staffslug] Swap question
On 17 October 2010 13:14, Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:06 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
> I just happened to come across a good working 1gb HDD the other day
> and wondered about using it a dedicated swap drive.
Which will be slow - disgustingly so - given its age.
If your 'main' hard disk in that machine is anything newer, you are
still far better off having a swap partition on that disk. Perhaps you
could gain more from having the swap partition on the outside area, but
this is a minuscule difference.
A 1GB *flash* drive would be a different story, but 1GB of rotating rust
isn't worth the power it would take to spin it up. :)
There is no benefit to be had under these circumstances.
Look at Ebay: £10 for a gigabyte of PC133 ECC memory (inc. postage).
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=P...
+ECC&_sacat=See-All-Categories
It's not like that's an expensive upgrade.
Tom
Yeah but this is purely a tat around, mess about with machine. I
don't even want to spend £1 on it let alone £10. Crikey, I must have
known Dick Turpin for too long.... It could be fun to actually
experiment and see how disgustingly slow it is. Just for the sheer
novelty of it :-)
Take care.
Oh, I've just unearthed a 3.2gb drive now also...
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