[ltp] Buying a New Thinkpad

[Robert Tomsick]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 13:40 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2011-05-04 at 04:08 +0000, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> >   One thing I forgot to mention; it's not clear to me that the t520
> > has space for an SSD drive.  I've seen forum postings, etc, mention
> > that it's possible to use the stock hard drive but add an SSD for a
> > swap drive, without having to jettison other hardware (e.g. we're not
> > talking about swapping the multiburner out for the SSD).  How do I
> > check on that?
> > 
> Putting swap on a SSD looks like a weird idea, you might kill it reallyt
> soon by constantly writing to it.

It may or may not be a weird idea depending on the SSD.  The Intel MLC
drives are rated for something like 10-20 GB of writes per day for 5
years straight, and SLC drives seem to be at least an order of magnitude
above that.

It really depends on the drive you're using, how good its wear-leveling
implementation is, how well (or poorly) it avoids write amplification,
and how much swapping you actually do.

Cheers,
Rob