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Admiral:

--- Quote from: Sbrem on September 16, 2022, 01:38:21 PM ---Thanks, the SSD in question is already a backup, but only about 20% is used. I have read about SSD's failing though it seems to be rare. My iMac has a 250 GB internal SSD, and is down to about 15% left, hence my consideration of using this extra drive as a scratch disk, for Photoshop and Illustrator (for the last couple of days, I can't "place", Illy's term for Import, a jpeg, png or even a psd. Well, that's just not right of course, so after a little digging I found a conversation stating that this probably my scratch disk getting too full, and currently, it's the main drive in the iMac. So, if I finish what I'm doing, reformat the external SSD, and make 2 partitions, I can use on for the external scratch disk, and the other partition for the stuff backed up on it originally. Damn, this is almost fun...

Steve

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SSD lifespan isn't as great as the slow spinning drives, unless you are buying high quality SSDs with better memory that can handle way more writes.

Back when I built all of the artist computers I did SSD for the main drive, then a 1TB drive for backup / scratch disk work.  Today I would use only SSDs but make sure I would get NVMe drives with a ton of write capability (Samsung pro perhaps).

"Lifespan - As we all know, when SSD writes data, the master controller will erase the old data and then write new data. This process is called P/E cycle (program/erase). When the P/E cycle runs out, the SSD is likely to fail."

Sbrem:
So, after a ton of screwing around trying to get this damn computer working correctly, and still having issues, I said the hell with it and bought a nice shiny new iMac with more power and double the SSD capacity and will transfer everything overnight, as that takes 4 hours plus as a rule. Thanks for the help and info everyone.

Steve

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