I was thinking in terms of an external. Deciding on an sSD for an internal for the system is a different thought process all together. My thoughts are that if I can afford a 512 GB internal, then I would go for it without hesitation. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable with anything less though, so I would be OK settling for a 512 GB spinning drive. External SSDs are not worth the cost for most people. They are aimed at the pro market. I got a 1 TB WD My Passport for $70 from Amazon. Does everything I need. Should last for several years.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 1:02 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: One advantage of SSD is speed, especially compared to low-power laptop spinning drives. I was once working with a guy who went from launching vmware to working in windows in about 3 seconds on a MacBook Air with SSD. Not sure if that is typical but it was impressive. I think hard drives just haven't kept up with the rest of the computer architecture such that our CPUs idle waiting for the disk to spin. SSD is a step forward in re-aligning the storage speed with the leaps all the other subsystems have taken. At least SSD costs seem to keep on dropping every year. A quick check of Newegg points to about $US .60 per GB which, at one time, would have been considered cheap for a spinning disk. While the crossover for the cost of SSB per GB matching spinning disks is still years in the future, the differential isn't what it used to be. It's also a diminishing return where, eventually, you'll have more storage than you can fill for the life of the machine. I used to go through several hard drive upgrade over the life of a machine but now days I seldom run out, but maybe that's just me. CB On 9/15/14, 12:28 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: > SSDs aren’t like thumb drives. They are much more reliable and don’t have > that problem of write limits. > If you have the money for one, than that’s great. But, you don’t need > anything like this unless your doing something like audio or video > production. They are much more costly. > WD My Book or My Passport will do just fine for most people. If you choose > that option, don’t git the version for Mac. it cost more and all you need to > do is git the PC version and reformat it. > > > On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Anita <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi List, > Can't SSD drives only be written to rewritten and read from a certain > number of times? If this is the case, does it quit working after the last > rewrite? For this reason, was wondering which is the best drive to purchase? > Thanks, > Anita > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > Barry Hadder > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. Barry Hadder [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
