Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareIs using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBitingChaos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoMy thought on this: If it was bad, wouldn’t we know by now? SSD-only systems have been a thing for over a decade, and SSDs themselves have been around for decades. If standard swap files damage SSDs, someone probably would have said something.
My thought on this:
If it was bad, wouldn’t we know by now?
SSD-only systems have been a thing for over a decade, and SSDs themselves have been around for decades.
If standard swap files damage SSDs, someone probably would have said something.
Makes sense…