I think yes, but there is USB Flash Memory Sticks that are quicker than others, I would use the best one possible for such thing and probably as well setup a RAM Swap to hdd,

Admin

Code:
swapoff /media/hdd/swapfile
rm /media/hdd/swapfile
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/hdd/swapfile bs=1024 count=256000
mkswap /media/hdd/swapfile
swapon /media/hdd/swapfile
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