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Sbrem:
I want to use an 500GB SSD that I have as a scratch disk, but I have to move the stuff on it to another drive to save it. Then I can erase the SSD so I can partition (2) it to use as a scratch disk for Photoshop and Illustrator, and put the stuff back on it that I moved so I could erase it. So before I screw it all up, does that sound correct to you folks versed in such things? It sounds right, but I wouldn't mind somebody else's opinion on that...

Steve

Frog:
How about copying the contents to another drive rather than moving it? Although, done properly, a move should be fine, copying adds another layer of insurance. I'm a bit of a worrywart and really try to practice redundancy.

Sbrem:
I was thinking of dragging the contents of the SSD that I want to erase to our Network Attached Storage (NAS). Isn't that the same thing as Copy/Paste? This is why I asked, it's the little things that can get ya...

Steve

Frog:

--- Quote from: Sbrem on September 16, 2022, 10:58:36 AM ---I was thinking of dragging the contents of the SSD that I want to erase to our Network Attached Storage (NAS). Isn't that the same thing as Copy/Paste? This is why I asked, it's the little things that can get ya...

Steve

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I'm not "Macish". In Windows, it offers the choice of move or copy.

screenxpress:
1. If the data on the SSD is worth saving at all, there should ALREADY be a backup procedure being done on a SEPARATE media.
2. Copying or moving the data to another media to restructure the SSD is fine, BUT remember just because there are no moving parts on an SSD it does NOT mean it's a fail-safe media.  SSDs do go bad.  I've had a couple fail so far and it's a real pain when its the Windows drive.
3. Never hurts to have data cross-saved as much as possible.  I use Synchronicity (open source) software to regularly backup my data to a drive that lives in a safe when not in use.  Synchronicity is fast and checks/displays the folders/files that have been added, changed or deleted between the source and the backup target and then requires a user's click to go move forward with the process.  I'm on Windows, but it looks like the software has a download for Mac.

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