[ale] no putting swap on ssd

[Ron Frazier]

I was listening to a Security Now podcast by Steve Gibson recently.

http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
http://www.twit.tv/sn

I'm not sure what episode it was.  Anyway, a listener had asked a 
question about SSD drives.  Steve recommended against putting a swap 
file, or presumably a partition, on an SSD due to concerns about 
excessive wear on the storage cells, which do have a finite lifetime.  
Now, at the moment, I don't own an SSD, but it's on my want list.  I 
guess I could always put the swap on a spinning HDD.  Has anyone else 
heard anything about this specific issue?

Ron

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