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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:39:07AM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:08:05 +0100 > Tom Potts wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 00:39, Grant Sewell wrote: > > ... > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Architecture_and_function > > So an SSD may be a flash drive or DRAM based with a battery backup. > > flash will wear out > > and DRAM may have battery problems > > Make sure you backeumup regularly! > > Anyone tried SSD for swap? > > Tom te tom te tom > > Would it not be significantly cheaper to just give it some more RAM > rather than forking out for an SSD for swap? > > Which reminds me of someone I met years ago wanting to use a small > portion of his RAM as a disk so he could put his swap on it. *Grant > raises an eyebrow* RAM also doesn't have such a problem with wearing out after a limited number of writes. Swap on an SSD would kill it very quickly. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0
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