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I have the rMBP mid 2015 15" with a 512GB SSD. I will be running VMware Fusion for my Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Redhat virtual machines.

Most of the time I will be using my Windows 8.1 virtual guest and will use the other virtual guest as needed. I am concerned I am going to prematurely wear our my SSD with running a virtual machines pretty much everyday on a SSD.

I am busy going through a lengthy wikipedia on SSD wear but everything is very vague. Does anybody have experience with a similar usage case and with fairly recent hardware?

Hennes
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I have several VMs that I have been running for years on SSDs (a mixture of Windows, Linux and OS X) with no troubles or failures (Mac Pro tower).

I don't see why running a VM on an SSD is any more intensive than running the OS on it directly.

If it's truly a concern for you (and I don't think it should be), then you can get an external SSD and connect it via Thunderbolt.

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