[TriLUG] SWAP and SSD vs HDD

[Tim Jowers]

Is it true the lifespan of SSD is determined by number of writes?  If so,
then I'd guess file storage will put very, very little demand on it. If you
figure 1 write per day then 2000 writes comes out to 5+ years. Am i
thinking correctly?

Thanks for the education,
Tim


On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> 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
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