At 03:00 PM 3/1/2012, you wrote:
However, do NOT put a swap file on an SSD. And don't defrag them either - not only is it meaningless, but it can put excessive wear on the drive.
Actually, Microsoft has a knowledge base article about precisely this, and they state that the best possible place to put a swap file is, in fact, an SSD. Once created swap files don't get written too very much... most of the access is reads, not writes. Besides, I have had mine for almost three years now with no problems. It will probably last another two or three years ...or more, and by then I will get rid of it for the next great thing ... maybe a speed of light drive!
Another surprising thing is that SSDs are not that good for video editing.You would think they would be, but there are just too many writes. I have tried it and found it to be no better, if not slower then my Raptor. My experience has been that the best thing to use for video editing is a Ram drive, although a Raptor or Raptor RAID zero with lots of system RAM is pretty damn good.
