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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by henryfjordan on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:08PM (#45662349)
Does HDD vs SSD matter at all these days? I can think of certain caching use-cases where swapping to an SSD might make sense, if the access patterns were "bursty" to certain keys in the cache
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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by winrid on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:12PM (#45662393)
It's still extremely slow and can cause very unpredictable performance. I have swap setup with swappiness=1 on some boxes, but I wouldn't generally recommend it.
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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by eru on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @08:07PM (#45663399)
HDDs are much, much slower than SSD.

If swapping to SSD is 'extremely slow', what's your term for swapping to HDD?

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by baq on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:01AM (#45665041)
‘Hard reboot’ (not OP)
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