Google Earth cache on SSD?

[akb8812]

So I use Google Earth quite a bit every day and usually the cache goes up to about a gig and a half before I clean it out. That's over the course of maybe 2-3 days.
I'm curious, should I put (junction) the cache folder to my data drive to save on some writes on the SSD? Or are the few gigs per week such a small amount that it doesn't really matter?

 

[MetalSparks]

Constantly writing to your SSD (especially GB after GB) will kill it very quickly.

If you really want fast speeds, buy some RAID 0-safe drives and use 3+ of them together.

 

[akb8812]

Constantly writing to your SSD (especially GB after GB) will kill it very quickly.

If you really want fast speeds, buy some RAID 0-safe drives and use 3+ of them together.

Yes, that will work very well in a laptop. 😛

 

[MetalSparks]

Constantly writing to your SSD (especially GB after GB) will kill it very quickly.

If you really want fast speeds, buy some RAID 0-safe drives and use 3+ of them together.

Yes, that will work very well in a laptop. 😛

Don't all laptops now come standard with 3 HDD bays? 😉

I didn't realize you were using a laptop - that makes multiple HDDs tough to do.

You should definitely move all data that gets constantly written to HDDs vs flash storage - even though it may be a little slower it'll last a lot longer.

 

[akb8812]

Well, I've been trying this out for a bit now and it really isn't working. Making a symlink junction to trick windows to store the cache on the HDD. It seems to mess up how Google Earth reads and writes the cache so it gets very buggy

 

[popatim]

a few gigabytes a week of writes is not going to damage your ssd nor wear it out in a timely fashion. It takes 20-30 GB a day to wear it out in 5 yrs and by then you will want a much bigger faster one thats half the price you paid for this one.