[ale] no putting swap on ssd

[Ron Frazier]

PS to prior note. The discussion regarding SpinRite started with this post:

Subject: Re: [ale] Which large capacity drives are you having the best 
luck with?
Date: 01/03/2011 11:33:03 PM

Sincerely,

Ron

On 02/08/2011 04:23 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> Don't go dissin' Steve.  I've listened to his Security Now podcast for 5
> years, and gotten tons of valuable advice and education.  I know a bit
> about how he thinks.  He generally knows what he's talking about in
> terms of consumer computer security (and reliability).  On the occasion
> when he misses something, he's quick to acknowledge it and provide a
> correction.  If he says he has an associate who's witnessed SSD's
> burning out during experiments because of excessive swap, that's good
> enough for me until I have some better evidence.  Once I get an SSD,
> assuming I remember this, I'm going to turn off the swap or relocate
> it.  The drive in this laptop is actually a new Seagate hybrid FLASH /
> Spinning Platter drive, so I hope it's not an issue for it.  Ubuntu is
> showing zero swap in use at the moment, so that's good.
>
> I also, a few times a year, SpinRite my hard drives and refresh the data
> in every single sector with read invert write read invert write cycles.
> Keeps 'em purring like a kitten.  We had a long discussion about that
> recently on the list.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
> On 02/08/2011 02:46 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:35 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I was listening to a Security Now podcast by Steve Gibson recently.
>>>
>>>        
>> This is the same guy that did SpinRite?  The controversial dude that I
>> seem to recall saying many, many crazy (if not just plain wrong) things?
>> Or are you talking about someone else?
>>
>> 'cuz "don't run swap on SSD" sounds like something the author of
>> SpinRite would say, at least to me.
>>
>> 	--- Mike
>>
>>
>>      
>    

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