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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by rtkwe on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @04:10PM (#4108165)
Just a question, did you take the swap partition off the SSD? That's one of the main tips I've seen in improving SSD life-spans.
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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by StavrosK on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @05:42PM (#4108614)
I didn't, but I don't know if it was swapping all that much... Maybe that was it.
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