

Heard of an "excessive write issue"), and I have had my M1 MacBook Air I have been tracking my internal SSD writes (when I PhotoLab 4 and Affinity photo) will not likely have an issue with

If you are an advanced amateur and processing 2-3 dozen photosģ or 4 times a week (like I often do with my M1 MacBook Air also using I look forward to your help always excellent in this forum, to be able to make the best decision.įWIW, unless you are a pro and working on 100's of photos per session,ĥ-6 days a week, the Mini might not be the best choice in the first Lastly if this SDD is in APFS format, is it better to use Volumes or Partitions? If it's a good idea to use this disk as a scratch disk, should I separate the operating system on one volume and the rest of the disk space on another volume?Ĭan this allow me to re-install macOS if necessary, without touching the other volume dedicated for photo editing work, on the same disc? Is it a good idea to use the operating system disk as a scratch disk for the one I describe?Ĭan it lead to premature wear and tear of the internal disk and then compromise the operating system and require a repair that I foresee on this new Mac M1 is not simple, is not cheap and can not be solved at home as in the past?

The internal disk is much faster than the SATA HDDs I have inside the Thunderbay 4 even with Thunderbolt 3. I think about by the end of projects to archive them in an OWC Thunderbay 4 unit + additional external backup. I am thinking of using my internal disk as a scratch disk for raw photo editing with various applications (Capture One, Affintiy Photo, DxO Photolab 4).
