SSD usage for pro photographer

KenRhem

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I am a freelance commercial photographer. Generally, once or twice a week (occasionally every day for a week) i go out with my camera and crew and we shoot 40-120gb of data (images, metadata, directories, keywords etc) to the shiny new SSD in my laptop. We then travel back to my studio where it's transferred to a NAS, backed up, etc...

My question: Is my use case wrecking my SSD? I recently read that SSDs did better with "permanent" os style data than they do with the kind of read/writes that i'm doing. I'm just sort of worried that i'm "red lining" my hdd.
 
SSD's are best for boot drives. The trim function does not work unless there is an OS on the SSD. Your SSD should be OK if you optimize it every now and again. There are free apps that will do this. Optimizing an SSD is the same as trimming the whole SSD.
 

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Its a samsung 840 pro. Does brand matter? I thought they were basically working on the same principles. i know some read faster and some write faster. I'm more worried about wear leveling and cycles before bad sectors pop up. Am i just being paranoid?
 

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Meaning they're not so great for lots of read writes?



My OS is on the drive. I also cycle a lot of data. Which I worry may be problematic.



Any good tools for mac?