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. :)

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