Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I have looked into this. It is possible, and documented on the Arch wiki. My main concern is constantly writing a large file to a small SSD.


Unless it's a really old SSD, lifetime is so massively extended over 15+ old SSDs, that it's not even a consideration any more. People use consumer grade SSDs for databases which last years, even when mostly full.

I expect many of the servers I have deployed, again consumer grade SSDs, would have more writes in a day than you in a year -- even with several suspends a day.

I cannot of course address the specific model you have, or the size of RAM you're suspending to swap space.


There’s also the fact that some laptops have laughably slow SSDs. I’m thinking my 2020 HP elitebook whose nvme drive is basically always slower than my 2012 sata drives… it takes forever to write the 32 GB of ram to it. It’s actually a better experience tu turn it completely off and on, unless there’s something I absolutely need to keep in its current state.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: