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Scratch disks on solid state drives

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Mar 15, 2026797 views
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For something like Final Cut Pro where you have scratch disks, is it absolutely a bad idea to use a solid state drive? There would be a lot of writing, but I'm thinking it would be less for video editing then say, programming? The read/write cycles for SSDs still seem pretty long...

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With normal usage a SSD nowadays survives about as long as a hard drive. Or so vendors tell us. So the write cycle thing should be sufficient for anything you attempt and wear-leveling causes writes to appear all over the SSD instead of hot spots. A…

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