Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:24:19 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: questions about swap (partition and file) Message-ID: <20200213212419.df7d90e9b81098df7c0d4c38@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHzi4Nvd2R8fOGwjY29tULtQc8S%2BoV1am8zvfs-dr2n9rA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200211155009.GA9715@bastion.zyxst.net> <r1uqaa$2vel$1@ciao.gmane.io> <20200213143411.GA14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <24133.44304.52029.432558@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <CAEJNuHzi4Nvd2R8fOGwjY29tULtQc8S%2BoV1am8zvfs-dr2n9rA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:14:50 +0000 Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > I don't get the point of "fast drives". Applications load in memory. > If you want a fast system, stick more RAM (and this is also a memo to > myself). A small(ish) SSD (say 120GB) is the cheapest boot drive you can get these days (unless you go for second hand drives) and plenty big enough if your bulk storage is coming from a NAS (mine is full of second hand SAS drives) viz: $ df -H / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on tank/ROOT/default 111G 14G 97G 13% / There's a swap partition on it (2GB) that sees very little activity, with that much spare space and low write rate the wear levelling should keep it going for decades. I'd have used a smaller one, but they were not significantly cheaper, lacked TRIM and were much slower - by now smaller ones are probably also hard to find. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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