Frank Glencairn wrote:I just run into dropped frames for the first time.
Turned out, that just dumping and deleting the files works only for a while.
To be on the safe side, you want to format the SSD every time after dumping.
I wonder if it makes any difference if you (like me) format via MacDrive, or do the same on a real Mac.
Not sure if MacDrive is able to do all that cleaning up ((TRIM and Garbage Collection) the right way.
Need to look deeper into that and really hope that ExFAT is coming soon.
Frank
This is a feature of Flash Memory :-
" Loss of performance
When a file is deleted from your computer the operating system marks that page as available; however the actual SSD controller is never notified. Therefore, when writing more data to the drive, if all the other pages are full, the SSD controller copies that block to the SSD’s cache, erases the entire block, rewrites the pages that are to be kept, and then writes the new data in the newly erased pages. This results in performance degradation when the drive becomes filled."
Tried and true method with Flash Memory is to dump the data and then format before using again.....been that way since the dawn of Flash Memory.