On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Chaps, it's a SanDisk 240MB, which is suspicious regarding your comments! > I just went up to MSY and got a replacement, a Kingston this time, not > another SanDisk. > > The shop guy said they'll send the SSD back to be analysed and either > repaired or replaced. I told him it was my C: drive so I'll have to > reinstall before I can give him the old one. > > After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they > work and wear-levelling and the like I became a bit worried and moved the > swap file to a HDD in an attempt to cut down the writes. It's actually a > bit worrying how SSDs work when you look into them. > > Whilst the idea of a really fast swap file is nice, the implementation of SSD's suggest that its a bad combo. Unless you do something like use a dedicated SSD for the swap drive, and eat the cost when it dies. I'm still a bit wary about the integrity of 'dirty' data on the swap file getting written thru to a magnetic drive. Thoughts?
> Now I'm going to the shops to get a new SSD and psych myself up for a >> possible Windows reinstall over the whole weekend. At Xmas it took 4 x 12 >> hour days to get to a satisfactory working state. >> >> >> Was that because it was Xmas? :) -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
