<p>I recall installing Linux on SSDs and recall that using them for a swap partition was discouraged in the docs due to the finite number of writes possible on the medium. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>W.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2013 10:44 PM, "William O'Higgins Witteman" <<a href="mailto:william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org">william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:28:33PM -0500, James Knott wrote:<br>
>William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:<br>
>>This fall I decided to spend a little (very little - $60) on a small SSD<br>
>>to act as my primary hard drive - for /, /tmp, /var /usr - basically<br>
>>everything except /home. I had heard a lot about them, and though my<br>
>>motherboard does not support SATA3, it does support SATA2, so I thought<br>
>>it might be worth a try. At worst, I knew I could put it into an old,<br>
>>enfeebled laptop that would then be rejuvenated by the new drive and the<br>
>>installation of linux<br>
><br>
>Did you also put swap on the SSD?<br>
<br>
I did - it makes up for a smallish amount of RAM very nicely.<br>
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yours,<br>
<br>
William<br>
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