@globalksp - Don’t get me wrong here I like Disk Warrior but I wouldn’t use it on a SSD and more so if you have High Sierra which upgrades your SSD to APFS! As it won’t deal with the new file system correctly.
As I stated before you really need to get Samsungs Magician software running on a bootable Linux drive. So you can let their diagnostics run on the drive.
Given what you are doing (and what I’m doing on a 17” MBP 2011) editing photos. You do need to be careful on how full the boot drive is. Make sure you have about 1/3 free. Frankly, I would just go with a bigger SSD than what you have. I have a 1 TB Samsung alone in my 17” its faster access than the smaller units.
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Even with 16 GB of RAM you can run into issues! I do recommend you install a memory monitoring app like [https://fiplab.com/apps/memory-clean-for-mac|Memory Clean 2] which I personally use! It allows you to free up memory which is still held open by the app. This can be an issue if you ware working on multiple images at once so what happens is once your RAM is locked up the system then needs to go to your drive for virtual RAM. Then this is where things can get out of hand as now you have blocks in RAM other blocks on the drive (VRAM) and the system losses it! Bang a crash and it looks like a RAM issue but it’s not really! It’s a RAM addressing error to the VRAM. That's why you need to focus on the SSD making sure the bad blocks have been written out using the Samsung Magician software.
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Even with 16 GB of RAM you can run into issues! I do recommend you install a memory monitoring app like [https://fiplab.com/apps/memory-clean-for-mac|Memory Clean 2] which I personally use! It allows you to free up memory which is still held open by the app. This can be an issue if you are working on multiple images at once so what happens is once your RAM is locked up the system then needs to go to your drive for virtual RAM. Then this is where things can get out of hand as now you have blocks in RAM other blocks on the drive (VRAM) and the system losses it! Bang a crash and it looks like a RAM issue but it’s not really! It’s a RAM addressing error to the VRAM. That's why you need to focus on the SSD making sure the bad blocks have been written out using the Samsung Magician software.
You don’t need a new logic board but! You likely need to clean it of dust build up in the fans and heatsink fins as well as clean and refresh the CPU & GPU thermal paste.
@globalksp - Don’t get me wrong here I like Disk Warrior but I wouldn’t use it on a SSD and more so if you have High Sierra which upgrades your SSD to APFS! As it won’t deal with the new file system correctly.
As I stated before you really need to get Samsungs Magician software running on a bootable Linux drive. So you can let their diagnostics run on the drive.
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Given what you are doing (and what I’m doing on a 17” MBP 2011) editing photos. You do need to be careful on how full the boot drive is. Make sure you have about 1/3 free. Frankly I would just go with a bigger SSD than what you have. I have a 1 TB Samsung alone in my 17” its faster access than the smaller units.
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Given what you are doing (and what I’m doing on a 17” MBP 2011) editing photos. You do need to be careful on how full the boot drive is. Make sure you have about 1/3 free. Frankly, I would just go with a bigger SSD than what you have. I have a 1 TB Samsung alone in my 17” its faster access than the smaller units.
Even with 16 GB of RAM you can run into issues! I do recommend you install a memory monitoring app like [https://fiplab.com/apps/memory-clean-for-mac|Memory Clean 2] which I personally use! It allows you to free up memory which is still held open by the app. This can be an issue if you ware working on multiple images at once so what happens is once your RAM is locked up the system then needs to go to your drive for virtual RAM. Then this is where things can get out of hand as now you have blocks in RAM other blocks on the drive (VRAM) and the system losses it! Bang a crash and it looks like a RAM issue but it’s not really! It’s a RAM addressing error to the VRAM. That's why you need to focus on the SSD making sure the bad blocks have been written out using the Samsung Magician software.
You don’t need a new logic board but! You likely need to clean it of dust build up in the fans and heatsink fins as well as clean and refresh the CPU & GPU thermal paste.
@globalksp - Don’t get me wrong here I like Disk Warrior but I wouldn’t use it on a SSD and more so if you have High Sierra which upgrades your SSD to APFS! As it won’t deal with the new file system correctly.
As I stated before you really need to get Samsungs Magician software running on a bootable Linux drive. So you can let their diagnostics run on the drive.
Given what you are doing (and what I’m doing on a 17” MBP 2011) editing photos. You do need to be careful on how full the boot drive is. Make sure you have about 1/3 free. Frankly I would just go with a bigger SSD than what you have. I have a 1 TB Samsung alone in my 17” its faster access than the smaller units.
Even with 16 GB of RAM you can run into issues! I do recommend you install a memory monitoring app like [https://fiplab.com/apps/memory-clean-for-mac|Memory Clean 2] which I personally use! It allows you to free up memory which is still held open by the app. This can be an issue if you ware working on multiple images at once so what happens is once your RAM is locked up the system then needs to go to your drive for virtual RAM. Then this is where things can get out of hand as now you have blocks in RAM other blocks on the drive (VRAM) and the system losses it! Bang a crash and it looks like a RAM issue but it’s not really! It’s a RAM addressing error to the VRAM. That's why you need to focus on the SSD making sure the bad blocks have been written out using the Samsung Magician software.
You don’t need a new logic board but! You likely need to clean it of dust build up in the fans and heatsink fins as well as clean and refresh the CPU & GPU thermal paste.