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Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

doubt it would hurt the drive's lifespan to a noticeable extent. swap partitions have been used for decades on much more fickle hardware.

I'd still only recommend them for systems with under 16GB of RAM (especially if that's shared with VRAM like a steamdeck) but otherwise it doesn't have much benefit.

PS: Even if a swap partition is set up, it won't necessarily be used until memory pages are evicted into swap, which usually only happens when regular RAM is nearly depleted.