One option is to use a USB SSD rather than a thumb drive. It'll have much
better wear-leveling and speed. There are USB 3.0 SSDs available.
http://www.newegg.com/External-SSD/SubCategory/ID-2022. Another option is
to put an SSD into a USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure.

- Alex
-- 
Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.  Wise is knowing better than to
put one in a fruit salad.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Not a wise thing to do Jeffrey.  Not only is the speed probably slower
> (unless you're at USB 3.0), but flash drives are not designed for usage
> like that (high, frequent I/O).  It will "wear out" and fail.
>
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> >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:18:19 +0700
> >From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]>
> >Subject: [Thinkpad] Use thumb drive for ram?
> >To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]>
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> >Is there some save way to use a thumb drive as RAM or as a location for a
> paging file (WXP or W7)?
> >How?  Gotchas?
> >Jeffrey Race
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