Originally Posted By: tfabris
So far, Google tells me that the people who say "Don't Put Swap On SSD" are trying to improve the life span of your SSD drive by reducing the number of write cycles.

But others are saying that fears about needing to limit the read/write cycles on SSDs pretty much only apply to older SSDs. Newer SSDs, they say, don't have that problem.

Is that the only reason?


Yeah, that was the "reason". Newer drives tend to have much larger capacities than the early 4GB, 8GB etc.. models. 128GB is typical today, giving the SSD firmware much more flash memory to distribute the writes across (wear leveling), making it a non-issue.