I have vague recollections of such discussions.
Thanks. I'd mostly purged that part of my quasi-long-term memory. ;-)
There were good historical reasons for such things when RAM was dear, but I'm sure different optimization choices would be considered if one were starting over now...
As long as the OS still wants to write things to disk for its own use even when free RAM is available, then there can be substantial benefits in replacing a spinning platter with a SSD. And having reboots take a few tens of seconds rather than minutes is a big win, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
There were good historical reasons for such things when RAM was dear, but I'm sure different optimization choices would be considered if one were starting over now...
As long as the OS still wants to write things to disk for its own use even when free RAM is available, then there can be substantial benefits in replacing a spinning platter with a SSD. And having reboots take a few tens of seconds rather than minutes is a big win, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
