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with SSDs catching up (in terms of price/gb) to hdds, could you possibly use SSD as a jit-cache ? processors are the most power hungry part of a machine, and c

with SSDs catching up (in terms of price/gb) to hdds, could you possibly use SSD as a jit-cache ? processors are the most power hungry part of a machine, and considering cooling is the biggest bottleneck in a modern datacenter, I wonder if SSDs acting as caches could amplify a processor's power.

wmf 15y ago
Sure, you can use an SSD as swap (unless you're in the cloud where SSDs have inexplicably not been invented yet).
ars 15y ago
Putting swap on the SSD will make it much faster. On the other hand it will wear it out much faster as well. So if it's worth it depends on your workload.