Originally Posted By: Archeon
The reason for this is because swap does a lot a small read/writes on the disk, and (because this process was never optimized for SSD) uses the same sectors a lot. This is not a problem for ordinary HD's, but in the case of SSD's, this would mean certain memory cells would wear out faster


Exactly backwards, that "explanation". wink
On a mechanical HDD, the same sectors do get rewritten over and over in swap space. On an SSD, they don't, because the SSD firmware is continually doing "wear leveling" to prevent it.

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