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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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

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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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Consider ZRAM/compressed RAM swap, maybe?

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