Google Earth cache on SSD?

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akb8812

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So I use Google Earth quite a bit every day and usually the cache goes up to about a gig and a half before I clean it out. That's over the course of maybe 2-3 days.
I'm curious, should I put (junction) the cache folder to my data drive to save on some writes on the SSD? Or are the few gigs per week such a small amount that it doesn't really matter?
 
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akb8812

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Yes, that will work very well in a laptop. :p
 
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Don't all laptops now come standard with 3 HDD bays? ;)

I didn't realize you were using a laptop - that makes multiple HDDs tough to do.

You should definitely move all data that gets constantly written to HDDs vs flash storage - even though it may be a little slower it'll last a lot longer.
 
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akb8812

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Well, I've been trying this out for a bit now and it really isn't working. Making a symlink junction to trick windows to store the cache on the HDD. It seems to mess up how Google Earth reads and writes the cache so it gets very buggy
 
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a few gigabytes a week of writes is not going to damage your ssd nor wear it out in a timely fashion. It takes 20-30 GB a day to wear it out in 5 yrs and by then you will want a much bigger faster one thats half the price you paid for this one.
 
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