I have never considered this in the past. Now that you bring it up it=20 seems to me that a separate drive for paging would be a good idea. If we=20 must beat a drive to death, I would prefer that it not be the C: drive! On 6/5/2014 8:41 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote: > 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. --=20 John Ferrell W8CCW =93Guns are a lot like parachutes If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again" --=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 .