SSD on desktop linux

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:28:33PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>This fall I decided to spend a little (very little - $60) on a small SSD
>>to act as my primary hard drive - for /, /tmp, /var /usr - basically
>>everything except /home.  I had heard a lot about them, and though my
>>motherboard does not support SATA3, it does support SATA2, so I thought
>>it might be worth a try.  At worst, I knew I could put it into an old,
>>enfeebled laptop that would then be rejuvenated by the new drive and the
>>installation of linux
>
>Did you also put swap on the SSD?

I did - it makes up for a smallish amount of RAM very nicely.
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yours,

William

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