Does having swap space on a solid state drive affect the drive's lifetime?

Does having swap space on a solid state drive affect the drive's lifetime?

Let's say you have an 8GB solid-state hard drive, which has a limited number of writes by nature (I think). If you have swap space for your Ubuntu installation, will the lifetime of your solid state drive decrease because of the swap space? If so, would disabling the swap space increase the lifetime of the drive? Would there be any downside to not having swap space to cover those situations where you run out of RAM space (like computer freezing or crashing)?

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Guest [Entry]

"would disabling the swap space
increase the lifetime of the drive?

that is fairly easy to answer: yes, any write operation avoided will increase the life span of a solid state disk.

but will your computer live long enough to tell the tale? hardly. :)"

Guest [Entry]

"In theory.

In practice, it isn't that much of an issue. The drives are ratted for years of continuous full bandwidth writing (granted, that is the whole of the drive, rather than a few GB of swap).

Go read up on the anandtech.com articles on them."