On Apr 5, 2014, at 3:47 PM, John Robinson wrote: > I wonder if Apple has calculated this into their SSD drives for in the past > the purchaser didn't worry much about maintenance and in my case I have used > so many of their computers for years and years before I drop a hard drive. I > originally thought I would put the SSD drives as the primary drive in most of > my machines, not so now, and I tremendously thank you for your reply.
My strategy would be to put the operating system and applications on the SSD and scratch space somewhere else. The operating system and program files don’t get written to very often, but they get read a lot. This would give you fast boot-up times and fast launches. I may have been overly negative in what I wrote yesterday. Newer SSDs have smart ROMs that load-balance the blocks in order to spread the wear around. They're probably pretty robust. Another strategy is to let OS X handle it for you. Apple has recently introduced a smart technology in OS X called Fusion. It pairs an SSD with a spinny drive, so it looks like a single large drive. It will optimize the use of the two. It basically creates a hybrid drive, like the one I have in my laptop. (This capability has been in Linux for years.) I've never used an Apple Fusion setup.
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