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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by Decade on Sunday January 04, 2015 @02:42AM (#8833770)
SSD lifespan concerns are overdone. Tech report took 100TB of constant writing to get a TLC SSD to start showing errors, and you're not likely to do that. However, by avoiding swap, you're in all likelihood causing extra reads, which also degrade performance. I advise saving your worry for other aspects, such as reliability during unexpected power loss.

http://techreport.com/review/25559/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by virmundi on Sunday January 04, 2015 @03:19AM (#8833847)
I'll let it swap (since I can't figure out how to shut of swap). I just do any heavy lifting on my Sager. A nice side effect is that I have to make sure my deployment flow works.