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Sbrem:
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

screenxpress:

--- 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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According to Google:
The bulk of HDD failures came after an extended period of time. When turning back the clock to look at drive failures after around 14 months, SSDs still fail less often, but not by very much—they have an annualized failure rate of 1.05% versus 1.38% for HDDs.Oct 4, 2021

I guess 1.05% is rare, but I've already had two SSDs fail. 

With 85% of a 250 Gig drive used, have you done any manual cleanup to free up unnecessary space?

Sbrem:
Yes, I've started that too, but unfortunately, or fortunately, I'm very busy. But I got the external SSD erased and partitioned, moved the personal stuff back into it's own partition, and the second partition is assigned as the scratch disk for both PS and Illy. About every 6 months or so, I do a little house work getting rid of extraneous files. thanks for the help.

Steve

inkman996:
Personally I would just install more drives instead of going through the partition efforts. Seems the more you do to a drive the more chances corruption can happen. Storage is pretty cheap right now. My main PC has 4 SSD's in it right now.

Sbrem:
The SSD is mostly for scratch disk purposes, and after a little reading on it all, I'll be emptying it out once a week or so, depending on how much is in it. On a scratch disk, as I understand it, they are temp files, and can be dumped. I also put a smaller partition for the personal stuff I had. I will be getting a 1 TB for a scratch disk, but the fix I did got me back up and running over the weekend. Thanks for all the help and advice everyone.

Steve

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