anyany to make Mac OS Lion write contents of RAM to optical bay HDD for hibernation?

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shanimal

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• Feb 6, 2012

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i kinda dont want to give up hibernation but i want my SSD to last as long as possible.

 

Intell

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• Feb 6, 2012

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It can only be stored on the boot drive. As per the pmset manual:

hibernatefile - change hibernation image file location. Image may only be located on the root volume.

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shanimal

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oh ok. thanks.

 

alphaod

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You're more likely to replace the SSD due to lack of capacity than for it to die due to wearing out from too much hibernation.

 

jayhawk11

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alphaod said:

You're more likely to replace the SSD due to lack of capacity than for it to die due to wearing out from too much hibernation.

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This. Writing 4GB (or 8GB, if you have that much RAM) of RAM to a sleep file isn't going to kill your SSD.