SSD as swap...

[Stephen]

SSD make exceedingly fast devices for SWAP/Cache purposes.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Michael March <mmarch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's something interesting...
> I had to run a batch process that quickly exceeded my physical RAM. I have 8
> GB of ram but the process required 18 GB.
> When I made my swap device a 10K RPM Raptor the process took 13 hrs to
> complete. When I made the swap device my SSD drive, ti took 3.5 hrs.
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Stephen