[ML-General] advice sought on SSD's

[Hunter Fuller]

My advice:
 - Turn off swap.
 - Install smartmontools and/or GSmartControl and configure them to
tell you when your disk is about to die. Check the utilities manually
if paranoid.
 - Don't worry about anything else.
--
Hunter Fuller




On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:57 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
> No, they have nothing to do with venereal diseases.
>
> For Debian Jessie on AMD64 platforms:
> I just spent some big bucks (for me) on a 500 GB SSD (Samsung Evo) and
> wondered what your opinion is on their lifetime?  Should I force things that
> thrash the disks a lot (like Folding at home and maybe swap) onto a rotating
> platter?  Swap is hardly used since I have 16 Gb core but FAH thrashes the
> hard drive *all* the time; one can hear it constantly.  I've not installed
> the SSD yet.
>
> Thanks,
> David M.
>
>
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