Ok, was just curious. Is it something that's possible in the future or is just that USB just straight doesn't support it?
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Ok, was just curious. Is it something that's possible in the future or is just that USB just straight doesn't support it?
Downloaded a trial of DriveDx...
It says my Lifetime Left indicator is at 99% and the Total LBAs written is at 49.3GB...is this good or bad? I've only had it for a day...
It's perfectly normal. Be careful - forums have a way of turning users into computer hypochondriacs. Dump the utility, use your Mac as you normally would, and don't worry about it.
It's perfectly normal. Be careful - forums have a way of turning users into computer hypochondriacs. Dump the utility, use your Mac as you normally would, and don't worry about it.
Starting to have some issues lol help!
Spotlight is crashing suddenly and going into Settings > Security & Privacy gives me an error: Could not load Security & Privacy preference pane. Drives taking a bit to populate after a restart...everything was fine till I started messing around with DriveDx and Safari 9.0 b3 awhile ago
Thinking I should reinstall OS X or clone HDD to SSD. SSD works fine when accessing it from HDD.Now I'm starting to get super paranoid lol
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Are you running DriveDX all the time? Try shutting it down and see if that helps. It is okay to use that utility to check your drive if you want, but there is no need to leave it running all the time.
So everything was fine until you installed the Safari beta? Maybe a quick reinstall would be best if that is the case.
So of OS X? Should I go into the recovery screen and choose it?
Everything was perfect till I installed the Safari beta over the existed Safari version. Then I decided to go back and deleted Safari from the system and eventually dragged the Safari 8.0.7 app from my HDD over to my SSD. Things still seemed fine and then I downloaded Drive Dx which is when things acted differently and Spotlight started crashing, etc after a reboot. Accessing the SSD and the System Preferences app from my HDD works perfect and yields no errors, but doing those things while booted on the SSD is a tad slower and causes an error in the Security & Privacy settings pane
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Yes, just command-r boot to recovery and reinstall the OS. You can't just drag and drop remove/install Safari like that as there other components to it that the installer installs. So yes, that may be part of the problem.
I don't think DriveDX works over USB unless you install a USB driver they have on their web site. Did you by chance install the driver? Make sure that is also removed if you did.
I don't think DriveDX works over USB unless you install a USB driver they have on their web site. Did you by chance install the driver? Make sure that is also removed if you did.
Removed the plugins for the driver and rebooted. Same issues. Guess I'll reinstall OS X. More unnecessary writing to the SSD lol
Should I wipe and then install or just reinstall over it?
lolShould I wipe and then install or just reinstall over it?
Just reinstall over it first to see if that fixes it.Removed the plugins for the driver and rebooted. Same issues. Guess I'll reinstall OS X. More unnecessary writing to the SSD
Should I wipe and then install or just reinstall over it?
Glad you are all fixed up! I would not sweat the write cycles too much. It takes a lot to wear those things down.Ok, Spotlight and the Security & Preferences pane are working again. Finder seems snappy again. Looks like everything is good
Only thing is I have 1.7 GB of photos (according to the Storage pane) which I can't seem to find anywhere....
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90% of the time I just do lots of web browsing so the write cycles shouldn't be a huge deal. Anything I download will just go to the HDD too
There are a bunch of images that are part of the default OS, and that is part of where that number comes from. That storage graphic is notoriously jacked up all the time. I have an 8GB Photos library and that thing says I have 1.7GB of photos also.
Ok, thanks for your help, appreciate it! And sorry for the craziness...shouldn't have done stupid things knowing I'd get paranoid. All things I read about SSDs being seemingly more "fragile" in the long run vs. HDDs worried me.
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Glad to hear things are working again.Ok, Spotlight and the Security & Preferences pane are working again. Finder seems snappy again. Looks like everything is good
I can understand that I'm just some dude on the internet telling you to stop worrying about SSD wear, but here are the numbers: The 120GB 850 Evo is rated for 75 TB of writes - that's 75,000 GB. You used 50GB the first day. If you did a complete rewrite of that 50GB again today, you've now used up 100GB. Only 74,900GB to go*. You could repeat this process over a thousand times. 10GB/day average would be extremely high usage for a typical user (other than audio/video work) - will last 20 years.
(* and to the nit-pickers, yes, I'm aware of write amplification and all sorts of real-world usage that can affect wear, but the point is that batting1000 is worrying over nothing)
Appreciate the explanation...i'm just naturally paranoid about my tech, usually when I first get new products lol. I'm just curious where the 50GB came from, because aside from the initial installation of OS X onto the drive, I just did some web browsing and downloaded a handful of < 1GB files.
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Nice to see other people doing the same thing. I dropped $160 on the 500GB Samsung EVO 850 for my Mini and it's working like a charm. Did a boot instal disk on my 32GB thumb drive and in less than 30 mins I was running OS X on the 500GB SSD via an Anker SSD 2.5' enclosure.
ixxx69 is right - I have a huge OCD about battery life and SSD wear. I've read up a ton on the life of these drives - they last forever. I plan on upgrading my mini in a few years so I'm not worried at all. My friend donated me 2 Intel 80GB SSDs that he used for many many years. I put them in my wife's Windows machine in 2011 as a gaming drive (for World of Warcraft) and the other as a Superfetch drive. They both have 95+% life even after all these years.
I do timemachine backups to the 5400rpm drive and have most of my files there (Google Drive app has all its data on the 5400rpm drive too).
Nice having this performance and speed. Installed World of Warcraft yesterday and was getting 65-78fps in Ogrimmar on low settings - load times were very fast like my ssd gaming pc.
ixxx69 is right - I have a huge OCD about battery life and SSD wear. I've read up a ton on the life of these drives - they last forever. I plan on upgrading my mini in a few years so I'm not worried at all. My friend donated me 2 Intel 80GB SSDs that he used for many many years. I put them in my wife's Windows machine in 2011 as a gaming drive (for World of Warcraft) and the other as a Superfetch drive. They both have 95+% life even after all these years.
I do timemachine backups to the 5400rpm drive and have most of my files there (Google Drive app has all its data on the 5400rpm drive too).
Nice having this performance and speed. Installed World of Warcraft yesterday and was getting 65-78fps in Ogrimmar on low settings - load times were very fast like my ssd gaming pc.