Another Hardrive went down!

[Mark Wieder]

Colin Holgate <coiin at ...> writes:

> Have you thought about SSD drives? I have a 750 GB one in my MacBook Pro 13
inch, and they are quite fast, and
> presumably resistant to head crashes!

The problem with pure SSDs is that they have a limited write-cycle lifetime.
They're great for storing files (lots of reads, few writes) but if that's the
only (or main) drive in your system the swap cycles are going to seriously
affect the life of the storage medium. On linux you can point the /swap
partition to a real hard drive to solve that problem.

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net