[ltp] Buying a New Thinkpad

[Martin Steigerwald]

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Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011 schrieb 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
> > >=20
> > > 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?
> >=20
> > Putting swap on a SSD looks like a weird idea, you might kill it
> > reallyt soon by constantly writing to it.
>=20
> 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.

Hmmm, but who wants to use swap for anything else than hibernation,=20
considering that its possible to equip a T520 with 8 GiB of RAM for a IMHO=
=20
quite low fraction of the price of the complete laptop?

I think I will also use noatime and put /tmp, maybe some others, into a=20
tmpfs.

=2D-=20
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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