29 May
2014
29 May
'14
8:31 a.m.
On 29 May 2014 15:55, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Hello All, I am about to make some hardware upgrades to my Linux box, and one of the possibilities is to add an SSD drive for /, /boot, and possibly also swap. Anyone have any advice on potential issues with the above?
I wouldn't use anything else but an SSD for the root filesystem! They're great. Don't stress about swap. I'm running swap on SSD for a number of my personal systems. Looking at a small server with 536 days of power-on runtime on the SSD, it still hasn't used any of the reserved-for-failures blocks, and the wear levelling count is only up to 8. (The wear levelling should get up to several thousand before the drive is approaching end of life)