https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/intel-x25-m-on-a-mac-maintanance-tips/m-p/4026#M3888 <P>Hi all! I recently bought an intel x25-m 80 gb drive for my mac mini. It is now a completely blazing fast machine!!! I really wanna maintain this speedy configuration and i have a set of small questions in order to achieve that.</P><P></P><UL><LI>Is sleep mode on mac osx harming the ssd's lifespan?</LI><LI>is timemachine restore harmful for the disk? All these data wiping and re-writing, time machine performs, even if performed once a month can be considerably bad?</LI><LI>Is it true when disk gets full the response time decreases?</LI><LI>How long does it take for the drive start to become flow? What are the factors contributing to that?</LI><LI>I'm using a massive external drive where i keep all of my data. If i need to download stuff or perform -w actions, they all happen within the external. The intel x25-m essentially serves the purpose of reading data. Is this generally the best thing to do with an ssd?</LI></UL><P></P><P>Thanks </P> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:49:04 GMT idata 2010-02-13T03:49:04Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/intel-x25-m-on-a-mac-maintanance-tips/m-p/4026#M3888 <P>Hi all! I recently bought an intel x25-m 80 gb drive for my mac mini. It is now a completely blazing fast machine!!! I really wanna maintain this speedy configuration and i have a set of small questions in order to achieve that.</P><P></P><UL><LI>Is sleep mode on mac osx harming the ssd's lifespan?</LI><LI>is timemachine restore harmful for the disk? All these data wiping and re-writing, time machine performs, even if performed once a month can be considerably bad?</LI><LI>Is it true when disk gets full the response time decreases?</LI><LI>How long does it take for the drive start to become flow? What are the factors contributing to that?</LI><LI>I'm using a massive external drive where i keep all of my data. If i need to download stuff or perform -w actions, they all happen within the external. The intel x25-m essentially serves the purpose of reading data. Is this generally the best thing to do with an ssd?</LI></UL><P></P><P>Thanks </P> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:49:04 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/intel-x25-m-on-a-mac-maintanance-tips/m-p/4026#M3888 idata 2010-02-13T03:49:04Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/intel-x25-m-on-a-mac-maintanance-tips/m-p/4027#M3889 <P>Hello, I would like to tell you that since MAC* OS is based on a completely different architecture than Windows* based Operating Systems, this kind of specific questions would be better answered by Apple* directly</P><P> </P><P>What we can tell you is that since MAC* OS does not support TRIM it is normal to see a decrease of performance but the exact rate will be different from system to system, still would be better to check with Apple* on this respect. </P> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:34:02 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/intel-x25-m-on-a-mac-maintanance-tips/m-p/4027#M3889 MBall5 2010-10-07T20:34:02Z