"druck"  wrote in message
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> On 24/03/2020 17:15, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> I got me a 4B 4Gig, and bought me tiny 128 Gig USB plug, stuck it into
>> the back, configured sufficient Swap space on it and added it to fstab.
>
> I had one of those, and tried it in the Pi, but it got alarmingly hot when
> in use. Instead I use a Samsung USB 3.1 bar drive, which is larger and
> made of metal, so dissipates any heat very quickly.

Is it OK to use SSD-type storage for swap space, or should it be a spinning
disk because of the large number of reads and writes that swap space causes?

My 32 GB "system drive" (which I presume includes swap space) in my PI 3B+
is working fine after about 18 months of usage. I use my Pi, among other
things, as a video recorder (lower power than a Windows 7 PC running Windows
Media Centre or NextPVR) and I use a spinning disk for the recordings, but
that's mainly because I need a bit more space than 32 GB: especially if I
need to go several days without being able to copy the recordings off it and
edit them before writing to my Windows "server" PC.

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