Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

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Subject: Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:48:00 -0500
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On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly on it
> would not be horrible?

Your question I presume:  "Is SSD suitable for a swap partition?"

Answer:  Yes, all SSDs are much faster than mechanical HDD for swap duty

Reason:  SSDs have no rotational latency

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Stan

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