On 2/17/2018 3:39 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote:
The reason I asked was not because I didn't know this, but because an
article said "under normal use, SSDs will last longer than the
computer themselves." I don't know if constantly saving, writing, and
compiling lilypond files with temporary files saved in Frescobaldi
would be considered "beyond normal use." I appreciate your explanation
of this.
I'm not trying to baby my computer; I'm only trying to be considerate
of any limitations there might be for an SSD currently.
--
Josh
Hi Josh,
Again, Frescobaldi does not save temporary files at all, unless the file
you're inputting and compiling has not been saved *once*.
So, as long as you open Frescobaldi and *save *the new document with a
filename, there won't be any 'temp files' to worry about.
Just change the path for the default save in my screenshot and you're
all set :) Save away!
Easy peasy!
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Andrew Bernard
<andrew.bern...@gmail.com <mailto:andrew.bern...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Joshua,
Myths about SSD's arise from early days. You have a new computer
with presumably a current SSD. Such SSD's can sustain petabyte
(that's petabyte) writes before they fail. If you write a terabyte
of Frescobaldi data to the disk in a year, which is utterly
unreasonable, you can expect to get 1000 years use out of it. The
electronics in your computer will fail sometime in that period.
:-) There are admittedly other factors relating to hard drive
failure, but mechanical drives suffer the same factors.
I wish people would relax about this topic or read the extensive
literature on contemporary drive testing,
Here's a five paragraph summary article on this type of testing:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you-probably-dont-need-to-be/
<http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you-probably-dont-need-to-be/>
There also exist many very learned papers on the same topic,
showing very high endurance figures for consumer SSD's.
Andrew
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