1 Feb
2022
1 Feb
'22
11:52 a.m.
On Feb 1, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2/1/22 2:14 AM, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
Definitely. But apparently wear from repeated writes is a thing on very high density
modern HDDs, much to my surprise. It's not as dramatic as flash memory but it
apparently does exist. For most purposes it probably isn't very important.
Especially not swap partitions: if you're swapping enough for this to matter you have
bigger problems. :-)
paul
There's several advantages to doing it that
way, including balancing wear on a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap
partition could put undue wear on certain areas of disk.
I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear leveling functions in
SSD controllers.