04-30-2015, 10:37 AM
Hi,
There is/was a number of different technologies used in making SSD's.
The older 1st generation disks did suffer from "cell wear", the sector would be marked bad, and set "Read Only".
The newer generation of disk are magnitudes more reliable.
Most come with 3-5 years warranty, they are being used 24/7 in data centres, so I wouldn't worry, I don't, I have 5.
But to answer you question...
The use of a swap file really comes down to your usage and how much memory you have.?
If you want to hibernate your devices, you need a swap file
If you don't want to hibernate, and have 4GB+ again probably don't need one for normal usage.
They are typically needed when you you are using apps doing intensive memory/disk/file access, like Video/Audio editing.
I have swap on my systems, I don't think it's ever been used.
Dave
There is/was a number of different technologies used in making SSD's.
The older 1st generation disks did suffer from "cell wear", the sector would be marked bad, and set "Read Only".
The newer generation of disk are magnitudes more reliable.
Most come with 3-5 years warranty, they are being used 24/7 in data centres, so I wouldn't worry, I don't, I have 5.
But to answer you question...
The use of a swap file really comes down to your usage and how much memory you have.?
If you want to hibernate your devices, you need a swap file
If you don't want to hibernate, and have 4GB+ again probably don't need one for normal usage.
They are typically needed when you you are using apps doing intensive memory/disk/file access, like Video/Audio editing.
I have swap on my systems, I don't think it's ever been used.
Dave
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Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)