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Does HDD vs SSD matter at all these days? I can think of certain caching use-cases where swapping to an SSD might make sense, if the access patterns were "bursty" to certain keys in the cache

It's still extremely slow and can cause very unpredictable performance. I have swap setup with swappiness=1 on some boxes, but I wouldn't generally recommend it.
HDDs are much, much slower than SSD.

If swapping to SSD is 'extremely slow', what's your term for swapping to HDD?

‘Hard reboot’ (not OP)

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