CatBus;158104 Wrote: 
>   Fanless & solid state sounds nice, but remember that disk swapping
> will rapidly use up the limited writes in flash memory, so most
> embedded systems are customized to not only disable swapping, but to
> cache all disk writes to RAM and only commit them with a special
> utility.  Those that don't have such utilities will see a gradual
> decrease in usable disk space on the flash drive until it finally
> crashes.  
Network network network :)  Just have everything (including boot image
& swap space) on a remote server. Gigabit is plenty fast enough, it'll
be as fast as a local drive. Local storage is not a requirement.


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