On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:29 +0800, microcai wrote: > 2012/11/26 William Kenworthy <[email protected]>: > > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >> > Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - > >> > any other effects? > >> > > >> > I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap > >> > heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a small > >> > ssd might help here. > >> > >> you know what helps even more? replacing those 4g with 8g. > >> > > > > I would if I could - physical max is 4G ... > > a new mainborad is cheaper than SSDs. sell the currently used one and > buy new one. > > > > > BillK > > > > > > > > >
I dont think a new quality mainboard, cpu and 8 or more GB ram costs $au69 or less :) I will upgrade eventually, but even then I would start with an ssd as well. BillK
