On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Richard R. Pope wr= ote: > I don't know about the life of a SSD or Hybrid drive that is being > used in a consumer setting with a gamer or someone like myself who > leaves their computers on for extended periods of time. A lot of gamers > will run their computers for 18 hours or longer at a time. I leave my > computer running pretty much 24/7 even though the actual usage might be > only eight hours or so. Remember windows writes to the swap partition > whether or not the system is being used. If the system is being left on > for most of the time and it is not setup to go into low power mode the > hybrid drive will be continuously written to by windows. I would suspect > that under these conditions a hybrid drive will probably fail in that > six month time frame. You would do well to actually profile your disk activity (under both demand and idle states) before deciding how to utilize your SSD space. In most cases writes to swap are relatively low and most users benefit greatly from having swap on SSD. (If you are doing a lot of writing to swap, you should consider a RAM upgrade regardless.) The biggest thing you need to worry about when using SSDs is write amplification. If you are not familiar with the term, you would do well to read up on it. -p. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .