things to do on installing an SSD
I'm new to Macs, so forgive my simple questions !
I'm running Reaper on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on a mid 2010 core i5 2.4 Ghz Macbook Pro, with 4 GB RAM. Audio interface is Audiofire 8. It's an old OSX, but it works happily with this interface. I do no other work on this laptop....no internet, gaming, word processing etc...just location recording.
For these purposes it works fine, although I recently swapped the ageing internal 5400 HDD for a Samsung 120GB SSD. I've installed Trim Enabler because 10.6.8 doesn't activate Trim on non-Apple SSD's
I'm planning to record projects directly to the SSD, I know it's perhaps not advisable and most folks just put their OS alone on the SSD, and record to an external, but my projects are going to be very small.
My main questioning relates to the need (or not) to assign a partition/volume for over-provisioning. In Windows this is usually recommended to be 10% of the SSD size and allows for the 'garbage collection' and restoration of disk space. Is the same recommended in Macs, and if so how would I go about creating such a partition ?
Thank you for your advice, and any other info relating to house-keeping for a newly installed SSD
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