[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[Rob Steenwyk]

You should always have a little bit of swap space, I remember reading a few
Slashdot stories about it. OS'es just run better with a small swap partition
there, but upgrading the RAM so that it doesn't use the swap nearly as much
is a good idea.
Rob Steenwyk
rsteenwyk at gmail.com


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:

> Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Mol wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM,  <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >> Could one use a usb mem stick for swap? they are real cheep (disposable)
> >> and getting faster. I'd got a 2gb flash drive I've been tempted to play
> >> with more.
> >>
> >
> > Remember what swap is...it's an on-disk representation of data that
> > should by all rights be in RAM, but there's no room for it at the
> > moment.  That means that having your swap drive go bad is tantamount
> > to random memory corruption.
> >
> > That said, I've tasted that fruit in the past, and it's pretty sweet.
> > :-)  If you go that route, buy a KINGMAX USB stick.  That's as
> > physically small as you're going to find, so there's less risk of
> > bumping it and breaking it or your USB port.
> >
> >
> as for swap.. I want enough ram not to need it lol. I'm not sure what
> device was originally being talked about but I'd be looking at a gig of
> ram for a quiet desktop anyhow. I should try it with and without swap.
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