SSD on desktop linux

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I have been using SSD on Xubuntu laptops for a few months.

Basic setup.
I just changed the EXT4 commits to run less often, to save wear+tear on 
the SSDs.

I also installed W7 on a laptop with SSD. Same thing. No issues.

Teddy



On 1/18/2013 11:31 AM, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 13-01-18 11:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> 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.
> That and put /tmp and /var/tmp on virtual tmpfs filesystems that use
> said RAM. Quite an improvement, even if you are stuck with spinning
> disks for most other storage.
>
> Jamon
>
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