[Novalug] Does swap shorten the life of solid state drives?

John Christopher john.christopher1100@yahoo.com
Wed Jan 26 20:39:45 EST 2011


I have a 30 GB SSD, 2 GB RAM, and Ubuntu 10.10.
I bought the SSD back in October 2010.
This is a light duty family computer that gets
used for web surfing, writing homework papers
on OpenOffice, etc.

According to a podcast I listened to recently,
if you have an SSD and you are using Linux, 
you should turn off swap because the swap 
partition will be written to far more often 
than the other partitions.  Is this correct?
If so, how do I turn off swap?

Thanks for your help.



      



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