-- SSD as scratch

It's almost 2012...has anything changed with the do's and dont's of using a SSD drive as your scratch?
Last I checked, the best configuration was a SSD for your OS/system and a RAID of some identical HDDs for your video/audio/photos, etc.  And it wasn't good to use the SSD as scratch because the read/write suffered over time and the drive depreciated and you needed to reformat it to bring it back to life.
Still true?
Thank you.

As far as, I know there shouldn't be any problems with this.  The drives have improved quite a bit.  Apple has been shipping them as main system drives in the MacBook Airs for quite some time.  Your system disk does a lot of read writing for virtual memory, and so far, I haven't heard of any issues.

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  • Additional SSD as Scratch Disk?

    I have the NEW MacPro which is fast & virtually flawless. I am a photoshop power user (VERY large files), and am thinking that an additional (external) SSD drive dedicated to use as a Photoshop Scratch drive, should be extremely fast, and save wear & tear on the internal drive. SSD's are more than twice as fast as a top Thunderbolt drive. And as a Scratch Disk the low capacity to cost won't be a factor.
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  • What size for OS/apps SSD and scratch disk SSD ?

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    I also need a scratch disk, so despite I prefer a fast and large disk like the Barracuda 3Tb, I read it will be better to take a SSD.
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    Thanks for your fast reply.
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    I've purchased a Windows 7 PC with 16 MB RAM, 2 terabytes and a 250 GB SSD. I'm going to load Photoshop on the SSD and the OS on the hard drive. Where should the scratch disk go?

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    On this 120 GB disk I've only installed the operative system along with applications. It seems to me that I have temporary files taking up space or something because the memory scan shows 76.83% of memory being used for "other" stuff than photos and apps. (se attached images)
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    I've tried to search around alot before posting this question, but i cant find good new information that directly answers this simple question.
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  • Why do people set their scratch disk to a RAM drive?

    From what I've read, the scratch disk in Photoshop is there so that if you become low on RAM, it will move data from the RAM to the allocated scratch disk...so why bother making that scratch disk the RAM when it'll just be going from the RAM...to the RAM? Am I missing something here?

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