<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Here’s a tip: get a Samsung T5 500GB external device, or a similar one from WD or elsewhere. They’re around $90 or so and have a USB 3.1 V2 interface, so they’re almost as fast as an internal drive.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can use it for backups, or just plug it into a USB3 port and use it as your working device for files. If you’re working with any kind of media files, you’ll be amazed has much faster it is. Set it up as your temp drive (just don’t unplug it without changing that first!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I use VMs that are 80-120 GB in size. They were taking 30 minutes to backup / restore to / from a 2.5” external spinning HDD. The Samsung T5 cut that down to 4-6 minutes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You’ll be amazed!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2019, at 1:05 PM, William Lindley <<a href="mailto:wlindley@wlindley.com" class="">wlindley@wlindley.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><p class="">Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main drive
for my PC.</p><p class="">Is that even a good idea? Are /var, logfiles, and all the other
stuff that constantly gets written to disk, still a Really Bad
Idea for solid-state memory with its limited write cycle times?</p><p class="">Or is that no longer an issue?</p><p class="">And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents,
family photos, and such over long periods of time?</p><p class="">\\/<br class="">
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