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Originally Posted by Southsidemusic
So basically it's a go to get the larger ssd's and not have to worry about any performance issues compared to the 256's we already have?
We have accumilated quite a few 256's now and it would be sweet to start using the larger 1TB SSD's even though they are more expensive at initial purchase but per GB it's a much better price.
Thanks soo much Darryl for your always very informative information
Greatly appreciated
Best Regards
Christopher
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Absolutely. And the larger drives tend to be less of an issue with sustained write speed, and drive wear, as the same level of overprovisioning (7% by default but I'd bump to 20% for any drive being written to much) gives you a larger reserve of spare/free pages on the larger drives.
Obviously but we are talking about single drive performance comparison here. If you have a system with multiple things happening at once or if you round-robin onto the seperate smaller SSDs you may be be able to get greater performance than with a single larger SSD.
And... for folks with older Mac Pros... the internal SATA is only SATA II/3 Gbps, these modern SATA SSDs can saturate a SATA III/6 Gbps link, so stick a third party SATA III PCIe card in your Mac.