Average Size of Writes for daily use in OSX?

Hi, I just got an SSD, so I've been monitoring my writes as reported by the Activity Monitor. So far I had 10GB of writes yesterday. This probably was because I installed office which is huge. Today I had my computer on for 6 hours, just surfing the web and watching youtube videos and I'm currently at 1GB. Also I did all the standard optimizations for SSDS like noatime etc and I have 0 swaps used because I have 8gb or ram, so my numbers should be smaller. What are you guys experiencing?

 

Haha, ya you guys are probably right. It's my first SSD though (costly!) and I want to take care of it until TRIM officially comes out, and then I can rest easy and let OS X take care of the rest.

 

Yeah, you're completely right, I'm mixing up two different problems ><. My reasoning was less writes means less stuff to delete later on (which would need TRIMing). Also, I've enabled the TRIM hack, but I've been getting a lot of beachballs as a result. lol I've decided to just not worry about it anymore. I just read a review from Anandtech where he says that he writes about 7GB/day without TRIM and doesn't experience significant degradation. That was with the previous Sandforce controller and I have the new one, so I should theoretically have less to worry about... As far as concern about pure number of writes, I guess I shouldn't change my computing habits to suit the drive to this extreme! I should just enjoy my drive . Here's the article if anyone's interested. Thanks for the responses everyone.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/2