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Re: [LUG] Bah! Disks! Bah!

 

Terry Hill wrote:

So would a good setup be to have an SSD drive to boot off and a ram drive as
the swap area so the SSD is buffered from the reading and writing that goes
on there?

If you were going to have a RAM drive as swap, wouldn't it be better
to just put more memory in the machine to start with and have no swap
at all?

James

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