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Re: [LUG] SSD/Flash : Was Running Ubuntu from a USB Stick!

 

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.

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