[Lazarus] Obtaining uptime

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2014-08-07 10:22 GMT+02:00 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:

> On 08/06/2014 08:05 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
>>
>> Just in case: you know that Windows 8 does not really shutdown by
>> default, but merely suspends to provide a faster "user experience"?
>>
>>  (Off Topic: )
>
> Are they crazy ?
>
> If you have an SSD, again and again rewriting the huge hibernation file
> will kill the device.
>
> So if there is no user-friendly option to deselect this queer option the
> users should be bashing them ....


I thought that SSD lifespan was more influenced by the number of writes at
the same place than by the volume of writes. I mean : if you overwrite the
same file each second the SSD would fail in less time than if you wrote a
different file in a different place each second. But I could be wrong.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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