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No they didn’t. They used rclone and mounted Google drive in vfs-cach mode which means it’s firstly written to the drive before it’s synced to the cloud

https://blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/

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My mistake, they chose a different implementation

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So, if they did use a direct storage mode connection instead of this cache method with a Gbit+ Internet connection, do you think it would be faster than swap on an HDD?

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No. It also has to be written to GDrive’s storage

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I can’t imagine a time when anyone would ever make a cloud swap drive. You want the swap to be as fast as possible

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