On Friday, August 17, 2018 at 5:47:14 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > If I have swap enabled I will ruin my SSD...so I will pass.
I hope you have a contemporary SSD from a quality manufacturer, because if so, you're fear isn't really warranted: contemporary Samsung or Crucial/Micron drives have high TBW ratings ... and astonishingly-high tested TBW before failure, e.g.: https://www.ontrack.com/uk/blog/pieces-of-interest/how-long-do-ssds-really-last/ > One of the Samsung SSD 850 PRO disk achieved a figure of 9.1 Petabyte of data > written! That´s 60 times the TBW figure Samsung promises on its data sheets. > The cheaper Samsung product – Samsung SSD 750 Evo was able to write 1.2 > Petabyte of data, which equals in theory to more than 80 years of constant > disk writing. However, the pro models showed why their price is higher: None > of them wrote less than 2.2 Petabyte of data. > > The test clearly proves that the fear of a limited lifespan is highly > exaggerated in most aspects. Brendan PS - of course, backups are also smart. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/2a528c57-5a9d-4370-a664-608af2882f4d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
