On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:06:27PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > ... would it be quicker than the internal hdd I already have? > > HTS548080M9AT00 (Hitachi 80GB TravelStar 2.5-Inch 5400RPM) Probably. Small writes are slow on flash, random reads might be faster but swap partitions are small so the accesses won't be that far from each other.