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Just got an OWC Mercury Extreme installed, and it's a great improvement, but I've read a few articles about how important it is to minimise the number of writes being done to an SSD (to ensure longevity). In OS X the file system keeps track of every time a file is accessed, and updates the file info accordingly. That's a lot of writing, which some say is unnecessary.
Apparently the 'noatime' function can be added to the OSX file system to disable this function. Does anybody know if this is useful, or which apps might be impacted by 'noatime' on the file system? Has anyone tried it?
Apparently the 'noatime' function can be added to the OSX file system to disable this function. Does anybody know if this is useful, or which apps might be impacted by 'noatime' on the file system? Has anyone tried it?