SSD on desktop linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:49:12AM -0500, William Porquet wrote:
> 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?

Well in general you want to avoid swapping, but if you are going to swap
having it be fast is nice.

USB keys are a different story.  They often have awful wear leveling.
Proper SSDs generally do better.

Of course if you actually write swap a lot, then you are trying to do
something your machine isn't equiped for.  Buy more ram.

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Len Sorensen
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