> I'm still not comfortable with SSDs that cannot tell you their health status
> until they finally run out of spare blocks...
Most SSDs have a smart attribute that lets you know how much wear is left on
them (I have a Samsung SSD with attribute 177 and a Micron with attribute 202
which run
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Ken Cunningham wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your comments, online and offline.
Not a problem - we're all here to help each other :-)
Consensus seems to be that this was a 1/100 x 1/100 x 1/100 coincidence
rather than a power issue.
Yep; as one with an electronics
Thanks to everyone for your comments, online and offline.
Consensus seems to be that this was a 1/100 x 1/100 x 1/100 coincidence rather
than a power issue.
I have ordered four more USB 4TB backup external hard drives. I believe I will
go with all SSD internal drives from now on.
I’m not
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
You are not supposed to replace parts in apple hardware, you should
buy new one. [...]
I trust you were joking...
I had my MacBook's battery and keyboard replaced by a dealer. Also, the
system disk is now external (USB) because some idiot (not me)
Hmm... it isn't obvious how "drawing too much power" would endanger your
drives before the power supply gives in. Per EveryMac.com this Mac Pro
can support up to 300 W total in the PCI bus. But the 200 W for your
card seems to apply only for heavy duty GPU running, like BitCoin mining
and it
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 03:03, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> This has nothing to do with Macports, but there are many people here who
> know stuff about this...
>
> About six months ago I put a new Metal-capable Sapphire HD 7950 video card in
> my 2010 MacPro (8 processors) to run Mojave. It required
