On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 07:41 -0500, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> John,
>      I don't know about the life of a SSD or Hybrid drive that is
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> used in a consumer setting with a gamer or someone like myself who=20
> leaves their computers on for extended periods of time. A lot of
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> will run their computers for 18 hours or longer at a time. I leave my=20
> computer running pretty much 24/7 even though the actual usage might
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> only eight hours or so. Remember windows writes to the swap partition=20
> whether or not the system is being used. If the system is being left
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> for most of the time and it is not setup to go into low power mode
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> hybrid drive will be continuously written to by windows. I would
suspect
> that under these conditions a hybrid drive will probably fail in that=20
> six month time frame.
Windows USED to write several other files regularly as well. But I
assume that newer versions of Windows either don't do this, of use a
filesystem that doesn't hammer the same physical sectors.


>      I don't know enough about Linux to address these points. Does
Linux
> continue to write to the swap drive even though the computer is not=20
> being used? I would like to know.

Linux does not.  However, the way people use Linux systems, there could
be more or less continuous writes in some cases, but generally that is
at the user's discretion.  What is going on "under the covers" in Linux
is a lot more transparent than Windows.

Linux has a range of filesystems available with different
characteristics.  Recent versions include some "flash friendly"
filesystems that specifically avoid that problem.


--McD


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