"best practices" for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat Jul 14 09:55:10 UTC 2012


On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Heinz Diehl wrote:

> On 14.07.2012, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
> > Not swap.  If you really need swap, it gets written to over and over, which
> > isn't exactly the best thing for an SSD.
>
> My thoughts were that nowadays, on laptops with a fairly amount of
> RAM, swap gets mainly used for hibernating, and I think it will be a
> significant advantage to have the memory image recovered from the
> fastest disk in the system.

  oh, right, *that's* why i want swap. :-)

rday


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