Re: [PLUG] swappiness and ssd

[Soren Harward <stharward@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Anthony Martin
<anthony.j.martin142@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also as both Rich and Rich said the small performance increase you
> would get isn't really worth the damage to you SSD.

Recent testing stats [0] 've seen are that consumer-grade SSDs are
good for at least 500TB of writes, and many survive well past 2PB.  So
they're unlikely to be significantly degraded even by using them for a
swap drive.  Unless you've got so little swap you're continuously
paging in and out, which case you should spend the money on RAM
instead.

[0] http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

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Soren Harward
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