It makes perfect sense. SSD drives are flash drives in the sense that
they have a limited number of writes per "cell" (but virtually
unlimited reads).
Which is why with an SSD drive you don't want to do operations like
defragging, swap files, and run tools like Spin Rite. But most of
those things are not needed for SSDs either.
The real problem is with the concept of a swap file. Ram is cheap
enough to have all you could need.
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Brian
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On 2010-01-13, at 6:25 PM, Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>
wrote:
That doesn't make sense. First these are hard drives... not flash
drives. Limit writes??... what kind of hard drive is that. People
typically put their OS on these and pagefile.sys defaults to the C
drive.
At 02:28 PM 1/13/2010, you wrote:
Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those,
but if you could afford to wear it out, go for it.
It would be faster than a SwapFile on an HD.
Intel has a white paper on this IIRC.
(I don't have any but might have stored the whitepaper.)
Rick Glazier
----- Original Message ----- From: "Winterlight" <winterli...@winterlight.org
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To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:32 PM
Subject: [H] SSD question
I don't want to pop for a larger SSD right now, but I am thinking
of getting a 30GB OCZ just to try out, maybe use it for video
editing, game install. I am wondering how well this might work out
for a pagefile.sys file? How close is it to RAM speeds?
