From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 4:55 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD
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? Just about every laptop sold today is SSD only – no option to put the swap file on a mechanical drive, and there doesn’t seem to be widespread reports of mass failure of laptop drives. As I mentioned in the previous post (and you can check on the main tech forums like AnandTech etc.), current generation SSDs seem capable of many terabytes of writes. Cheers Ken
