On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 11:05:34 -0400
Patrick Shanahan
To save SSD life, I moved swap to a swap-file on a md0 non-ssd part some time ago.
It is probably better to have a lot of RAM, so that swap is not used that often, and move swap back to SSD as difference in access speed is rather dramatic; you don't have movable parts that need repositioning and pure transfer speed is few times higher. Of course if you use hibernation that will tax swap space, but when one is worn out, after say 2000 writes, you can use different part of the disk that wasn't used that much and repeat that as long as remain disk capacity is sufficient for your needs. The lifetime of a drive is different from individual memory cell endurance as built in controller will stop using bad block, just the same way it happens with classic, mechanical, drives. How far this can go depends on a size of memory that is allocated to hold index of bad blocks. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org