Timeline for How to keep /private/tmp on a RAM drive with Big Sur & Monterrey+?
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 21:51 | comment | added | ylluminate | @benwiggy it would be nice to share that info vs just saying it. It appears one can find such warranty info here: samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/support/warranty - so basically you're saying that if you spring for the PRO level of SSDs from them they'll give you 10 years or 150-600 TB of TBW. Hmm, but the TBW is kind of concerning since that's exactly what my post is about when you're doing compiler compilations that consume tens of GB each time. | |
| Nov 26, 2021 at 17:54 | comment | added | benwiggy | @ylluminate Samsung's warranty on their own retail SSDs would suggest that they are putting their money where their mouth is. | |
| Nov 26, 2021 at 16:41 | comment | added | ylluminate | @benwiggy that is theoretical. In practice I have sen a much different scenario by working with thousands of systems. SSD manufacturers simply are largely blowing smoke up our bums. | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:58 | comment | added | benwiggy | For most normal use cases, the SSD life will far exceed the useful life of the Mac. Swapping out 8 Gb every day for 6 years is 17.5 Tb, and the SSDs in the latest M1 Macs are likely to have TBW of 600 Tb per Tb. (e.g. 2Tb drives will be twice that.) | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:01 | comment | added | ylluminate | It seems that this can in fact coax most of my usecase scenarios to work properly @nohillside. Will test and tweak and see if I need to push this into a closer-to-boot location as I evaluate via no-SIP, etc. | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 22:00 | vote | accept | ylluminate | ||
| Nov 24, 2021 at 18:27 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Having said that (and falling into the trap I warned about in the previous comment): Can't you just create the ram disk later and set TMPDIR accordingly? | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 18:26 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Can you please focus on the actual problem (how to put /private/tmp) on a RAM drive? Currently its difficult to find the actual question within the post (also people are less likely to respond to your rationale if you keep it short :-)). | |
| Nov 24, 2021 at 18:15 | history | edited | ylluminate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2021 at 6:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 22, 2021 at 22:57 | answer | added | jksoegaard | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 22, 2021 at 22:43 | history | asked | ylluminate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |