Is this possible?

[rikona]

Hello Dave,

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 12:30:22 PM, Dave wrote:

> warning - advice I haven't tested coming

> there's an archived discussion at stackexchange here:

> http://superuser.com/questions/51724/should-i-keep-my-swap-file-on-an-ssd-drive

> where an answer, the one with 61 points, seems to be from and about
> Microsoft Windows and they say they see a 40:1 ratio between reads
> and writes. I think the wear and tear is mostly from writing. So it
> seems the swap file could usefully live there. Also the swap file is
> teeny compared to the main data store, so even a small SSD would do
> for that purpose.

Interesting site. I was considering a small, inexpensive SSD for that
purpose. Might last longer than older discussions suggested...

> Certainly I have had a very positive (day and night) experience in
> upgrading my primary drive (/dev/sda) to SSD. Basically extended the
> useful lifetime of the system for another two years. Then something
> else broke, but that's always the way, eliminate one bottleneck and
> find another later.

When the new box was working for a while, the bootup and
responsiveness was VERY nice. I could get spoiled by having an SSD for
the system. :-)

Thanks for the info...

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 rikona