On 4 March 2015 at 20:28, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Swap space on SSD? Surely it's easier, quicker and faster to just shove more ram into the machine? RAM should be faster than SSD, and if you have enough of it, then swap space won't be used.
Most motherboards max out at 16GB RAM and I always find the O/S still finds some use for swap even if there's RAM available. I figure that if SSD is there it makes sense that if the O/S is going to swap at all it should swap to whatever is closest to RAM in speed, which is SSD.
In an ideal world I'd have masses of RAM instead of SSD, but even then I'd want data written to disk in case of power failure, and loading apps etc still means pulling them from disk, so in that ideal world I'm going to want SSD as well. Given the limitations on expanding RAM I figure it's worth seeing how far I can get with SSD.
Either I'm going to see a huge performance increase or wonder why I bothered. I guess I'll know which soon enough!