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Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Quills @sh.itjust.works 12mo ago

Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?

Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?

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I did calculate it once on an older samsung drive. If you write multiple terabytes every day, you will cross samsungs estimated lifetime in 3 years.

I have no idea how much data a swap partition move per day but it can't be near that much?
- But the swap partition is only used when you run out of ram right? If I have enough ram I should not worry about that.
  
  No, it's used much more often. How often is determined by a value called swapiness.

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