I am pursuing a policy of magnetic medium elimination, though I accept it as an
inevitable in certain places. Indeed, speed and robustness are key reasons to
move to SSDs, but backup drives can't realistically be expected to be SSD, and
of course if you have older machines with hard disks in
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
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
;
finer than high end watch movements.
- Original Message -
From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Storage Options and Hard Drives.
One advantage of SSD is speed
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 whitch is the best drive to
purchase?
Thanks,
Anita
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On 9/14/2014 9:00 PM, Anita wrote:
Hi List,
Can't SSD drives only be written to rewritten and read from a certain
number of times?
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
Flash memory does have a read/write limit. After a certain amount of cycles, a
particular transistor in the memory will stop working reliably. However, it
will take years before that starts to happen, and all flash drives, SD cards,
and other flash memory is the same. Besides, mechanical drives
Actually it has an erase limit which is what happens when data is written. The
data can still be read though..
USB and SSD are basically the same as they are both flash, but they are
different architectures. SSDs are vastly more reliable than thumb drives.
On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:28 PM, Alex
