[ubuntu-uk] SwapBoost - A great idea or a terrible misgiving?

[Alan Pope]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 19:10 +0000, Matt wrote:
> Flash wear may be an issue, as I suspect it would be very write heavy. I 
> use a SD card as swap in my eee to save excessive writes to the SSD in 
> it, just as a precaution (I suspect that it would be fine without) I do 
> have a USB flash drive is starting to fail, this was a very cheap one 
> and has seen a lot of use, so I guess I can't be too grumpy.
> 

I've read articles recently indicating that flash wear is much less of
an issue than people perceive. Lifetimes of 25 years have been quoted
for SSDs under average usage patterns.

Cheers,
Al.