intel x25-m on a mac. maintanance tips?

[idata]

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.

• Is sleep mode on mac osx harming the ssd's lifespan?
• 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?
• Is it true when disk gets full the response time decreases?
• How long does it take for the drive start to become flow? What are the factors contributing to that?
• 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?

Thanks

[MBall5]

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

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.