SSD on desktop linux

[William Porquet]

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.

Thoughts?

W.
On Jan 17, 2013 10:44 PM, "William O'Higgins Witteman" <
william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
>
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