Finally, I have read your link, dang should have done that before I answered. Looks like Fusion is for an Apple created pairing, not doing what I have. So, until I can get a newer Mac I'll do as you suggest and move the data to the hard drive, I'll also get the "Trim Enabler" to handle the Samsung drive I now have.
Thanks again. John On Apr 6, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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