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A normal windows installation will
wear out the flash disk in no time.

You have me puzzled here. How does it "wear out" solid state?

Because a solid-state flash disk has a limited number of write/erase cycles
per sector of 100,000 to 1,000,000 times. So having windows put a swapfile
on that, or any other temporary file will make the flash disk reach that
number in no time.

You'll need XP Embedded to make
sure it does not write registry, log and swapfiles files to the
flashdisk "millisecond".

What is wrong with writing data to a flash drive? I use them to move
data between computers anyway. They can hold with power off and
unplugged.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying?

Yes. Writing data to flash is ok. But having an OS putting temporary files
on a flash disk that are write thousands of times during one session is bad.

Meindert