SSD & External drive

cookiesnfooty · Jul 19, 2012, 02:41 AM

Hello all,

I am just curious I have an SSD in my Macbook pro and I am considering a thunderbolt HDD. If I am ripping DVDs straight to the external HDD does this also wear down the SSD as if I was just writing to SSD or is it being bypassed?

Also if using a VM partition but still selecting external drive to write ISO files to will this still limit writes to the SSD?

Thanks.

Weaselboy · Jul 19, 2012, 11:44 AM

Anything you write to external drives will go straight to the external without write cycles to the SSD.

That said, don't worry about write cycles. You are correct there is a finite number of cycles per cell on a SSD, but even if you are a very heavy user, you will not hit that limit for many many years.

Jul 19, 2012, 02:41 AM	#1
cookiesnfooty macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wilmslow	SSD & External drive Hello all, I am just curious I have an SSD in my Macbook pro and I am considering a thunderbolt HDD. If I am ripping DVDs straight to the external HDD does this also wear down the SSD as if I was just writing to SSD or is it being bypassed? Also if using a VM partition but still selecting external drive to write ISO files to will this still limit writes to the SSD? Thanks. __________________ Iphone 5 64GB White, Macbook pro 2011 16GB RAM & 1.02TB SSD RAID. "I miss you Steve"....
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Jul 19, 2012, 11:44 AM	#2
Weaselboy macrumors 604 Join Date: Jan 2005	Anything you write to external drives will go straight to the external without write cycles to the SSD. That said, don't worry about write cycles. You are correct there is a finite number of cycles per cell on a SSD, but even if you are a very heavy user, you will not hit that limit for many many years.
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