Re: Re-direct write processes in Frescobaldi?

[Ben]

On 2/17/2018 3:39 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote:

The reason I asked was not because I didn't know this, but because an article said "under normal use, SSDs will last longer than the computer themselves." I don't know if constantly saving, writing, and compiling lilypond files with temporary files saved in Frescobaldi would be considered "beyond normal use." I appreciate your explanation of this.

I'm not trying to baby my computer; I'm only trying to be considerate of any limitations there might be for an SSD currently.

--

Josh

Hi Josh,

Again, Frescobaldi does not save temporary files at all, unless the file you're inputting and compiling has not been saved once.

So, as long as you open Frescobaldi and save the new document with a filename, there won't be any 'temp files' to worry about.

Just change the path for the default save in my screenshot and you're all set :) Save away!

Easy peasy!

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Joshua,

Myths about SSD's arise from early days. You have a new computer with presumably a current SSD. Such SSD's can sustain petabyte (that's petabyte) writes before they fail. If you write a terabyte of Frescobaldi data to the disk in a year, which is utterly unreasonable, you can expect to get 1000 years use out of it. The electronics in your computer will fail sometime in that period. :-) There are admittedly other factors relating to hard drive failure, but mechanical drives suffer the same factors.

I wish people would relax about this topic or read the extensive literature on contemporary drive testing,

Here's a five paragraph summary article on this type of testing:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you-probably-dont-need-to-be/

There also exist many very learned papers on the same topic, showing very high endurance figures for consumer SSD's.

Andrew

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