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Best SSD for Macbook Pro Mid 2010
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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1850458" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>Patrick - </p><p>If you read 10 articles on the net (hopefully recent ones) about the amount of free space on spinner hard drives and SSDs you will get 11 opinions.</p><p>Maybe by doing more research one might come across valid controlled test s, but I haven't up till now.</p><p>The only practical experience I ever had when macOS brought up the hard drive space low message at which point the free space I had was in the MB range on an 80GB dive.</p><p>That was years ago and I managed to recover fine at that time by just deleting a bunch of files. I never shut down the Mac and tried to reboot with that little free space.</p><p>I typically tried to leave at least 20% free space, but leaving 100GB free on a 500GB drive for instance seems overkill especially when I read (and I wish I could find that article again to check the date) that the 20% guideline came about initially to allow Windows to be able to defragment the drive successfully.</p><p></p><p>For spinner drives the theory is a bit simpler since there are not that many different ways the data can be stored on the media, when I read about SSD technology, there are many more methods that I want to get my head around.</p><p>And I'm just talking about ways of storing data, not the data manipulation to maximize life.</p><p></p><p>Although, I suppose in the end it doesn't much matter if one has a solid backup strategy.</p><p></p><p>@Jake - Thanks for your detailed explanation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1850458, member: 67742"] Patrick - If you read 10 articles on the net (hopefully recent ones) about the amount of free space on spinner hard drives and SSDs you will get 11 opinions. Maybe by doing more research one might come across valid controlled test s, but I haven't up till now. The only practical experience I ever had when macOS brought up the hard drive space low message at which point the free space I had was in the MB range on an 80GB dive. That was years ago and I managed to recover fine at that time by just deleting a bunch of files. I never shut down the Mac and tried to reboot with that little free space. I typically tried to leave at least 20% free space, but leaving 100GB free on a 500GB drive for instance seems overkill especially when I read (and I wish I could find that article again to check the date) that the 20% guideline came about initially to allow Windows to be able to defragment the drive successfully. For spinner drives the theory is a bit simpler since there are not that many different ways the data can be stored on the media, when I read about SSD technology, there are many more methods that I want to get my head around. And I'm just talking about ways of storing data, not the data manipulation to maximize life. Although, I suppose in the end it doesn't much matter if one has a solid backup strategy. @Jake - Thanks for your detailed explanation. [/QUOTE]
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