SSD warranties seem to be measured in GB allowances per day and then giving a shorter lifetime of use e.g. 40GB per day for three years. I am unsure then if I will be unnecessarily shortening the life of an SSD if transferring large volumes of data between external HDDs?
For example, in OS X, if transferring 500GB via FW800 from one external HDD to another HDD connected via the Thunderbolt interface - would the SSD be used (i.e. impacted upon) in that process at all?
A test I presently cannot perform myself would be to monitor RAM activity as the transfer was in action: using Activity Monitor to view the virtual memory's page in/out levels. If the page outs are zero then it would not be using the SSD I assume, thus not shortening the SSDs life?
My machine will have 16GB of DDR3 1600 RAM when the time comes, but cannot test for this now and was hoping somebody might know?
Thanks.
ref: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6884/crucial-micron-m500-review-960gb-480gb-240gb-120gb
For example, in OS X, if transferring 500GB via FW800 from one external HDD to another HDD connected via the Thunderbolt interface - would the SSD be used (i.e. impacted upon) in that process at all?
A test I presently cannot perform myself would be to monitor RAM activity as the transfer was in action: using Activity Monitor to view the virtual memory's page in/out levels. If the page outs are zero then it would not be using the SSD I assume, thus not shortening the SSDs life?
My machine will have 16GB of DDR3 1600 RAM when the time comes, but cannot test for this now and was hoping somebody might know?
Thanks.
ref: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6884/crucial-micron-m500-review-960gb-480gb-240gb-120gb