SSD & External drive

[cookiesnfooty]

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]

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.