On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Fr David Ousley
Friends --
I'm installing Opensuse 11.3 on a new machine. It has an SSD drive, and two RAID 1 (mirrored) hard drives. I was planning to put the /boot and /swap on the SSD for speed (unless you experts -- which I am not -- tell me that that's not a good idea),
I would not put the SSD on swap for "speed". If you are using swap enough that speed matters, you will wear out your SSD long before you would otherwise. ie. Low-end SSD is designed for about 5,000 write cycles per Erase Block (EB). High-end for about 100,000 I think. Wear leveling allows you to spread that load around to unused EBs, but it will still be a problem. If you are hitting swap so much you care about speed, then SSD is a poor solution. If you're hitting it hard, either leave it on rotating disk or get more ram. If you only use swap now and then, but get frustrated that your whole machine slows down, then maybe. The trouble is you could start using swap more and more frequently and not realize it. Thus you wear out that expensive SSD for little real value. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org