On Monday, 8 Feb 2016 at 12:27, Michael wrote: [...]
>> If your SSD is too small for your music collection, put the collection >> elsewhere. > Basically, i agree. However that's not the way some (younger) folks > want to live. They want one device, doing anything, and no cables and > no external devices laying around and getting lost (or > accessed/misused by others). Exactly 'nothing' to bother with at all. > Don't underestimate human nature :D Even some oldtimers (me) want it this way. I want my laptop to be self-contained. Ideally, I would love to be able to plug in using USB to the wall as well... >> You will most likely replace your computer system with a new one before the >> SSD dies. > > It's even quie possible that you will re-use your SSD with the next > machine, if it gots second disk slot. Thinkpads, that is. In 30+ years of using laptops. I have never taken any hardware from one to the next. Usually, standards have changed (don't ya just love them ;-) and bits cannot be transferred but, in any case, there is often no need as the new hardware completely supersedes the old (e.g. order of magnitude increase in space/speed/efficiency). > Still, nobody replied to my question about swap file on SSD: Does it > work, or might there possibly a problem because you have to pass the > exact starting block numner to the kernel (as boot parameter). Can All I can say is that my current laptop has only an SSD for storage (256 GB, I believe, half for Linux and half for Windows). I use Linux on it 98% of the time. Swap space allocated on the SSD. No problem at all so far in 1 year of operation. -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 25.0.90.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)
