[TriLUG] SWAP and SSD vs HDD

[Igor Partola]

All of the recent drives have a volatile cache of 16-64 MB. This is both not enough for an 8GB swap partition and in this case will be used by the drive for its primary purpose: file storage.

Yes, if you are concerned about drive wear, just put it on the HDD. If you run out of RAM, you will have much bigger things to worry about than exactly how slow swap is :).

Igor