What do you all think about Intel 520 SSD as a boot/application drive? Is it suitable?
What do you all think about Intel 520 SSD as a boot/application drive? Is it suitable?
Any SSD is perfectly well suited for notting and apps.
It's not the #1 SSD here on the forum - but it certainly will do a good job for you.
"Popular" depends entirely on who you ask. This thread has a definite bias towards the Samsung, but I disagree and would never buy anything from that company. All of the major brands have their fans. In my opinion, get the largest SSD you can afford choosing from, Intel, Crucial M4, OCZ, OWC or any other brand that has the capability to use a Mac-based firmware updater. The Samsung SSDs cannot be upgraded on a Mac. I have had good performance with the Intel 335, use it for boot drive, some storage and daily work on a late 2011 MBP. Solid, no issues whatsoever, with Trim enabled. Most of the SSDs available today are very stable. What MBP are you going to install your SSD in?Which one is most popular and worth trying? OCZ Vertex or Crucial?
I had a look in this thread and It seems that I will hold of the Samsung 840.
"Popular" depends entirely on who you ask. This thread has a definite bias towards the Samsung, but I disagree and would never buy anything from that company. All of the major brands have their fans. In my opinion, get the largest SSD you can afford choosing from, Intel, Crucial M4, OCZ, OWC or any other brand that has the capability to use a Mac-based firmware updater. The Samsung SSDs cannot be upgraded on a Mac. I have had good performance with the Intel 335, use it for boot drive, some storage and daily work on a late 2011 MBP. Solid, no issues whatsoever, with Trim enabled. Most of the SSDs available today are very stable. What MBP are you going to install your SSD in?
The SSD that can challenge the Samsung 840 Pro right now is the OCZ Vector, but I really anticipate the Crucial m500, which looks pretty good on paper, especially at under $0.60 per GB.
The Kingston drive should work fine, but it is rather small at 120GB..... my Macbook which is Early 2011, i7 2.7GHz and 8GB ram.
Is this Kingston HyperX any good?
I have the late '09 13" MB and hoping to do the SSD in the next 2-3 months. My drive space is filling up and I have had my eyes set on the Crucial M4 512GB for quite a while.
I only understand the basics of SSDs, but one thing I continue to be confused about is "trim." Some say enable it, others say don't bother. Another thing that gets me is being sure to get a drive that I can update the firmware through thru mac (not sure if I said that right?). What exactly do these two things mean?
And finally, in your experiences is the M4 a decent brand to go with? Would love to hear thoughts on this. Thanks.
I've seen it said repeatedly that with Bootcamp, we can update the firmware on a drive like the Samsung 840, which can't be updated in OS X. But I don't understand why. If I have an OS X partition and a Windows partition (XP, to be exact), doesn't the firmware update apply only to the Windows partition? I called Samsung today and the tech support person I spoke with confirmed this.
Hey everyone if someone could kindly help me that would be greatly appreciated.
So, basically I bought a Crucial M4 256GB SSD CT256M4SSD2
I will be putting it in a 2012 Macbook Pro 13 inch.
I know how to put it in physically and all that. But I have a few questions.
First, do I have to do anything before or after I freshly reinstall OSX Lion?
Second, do I have to turn on any settings or anything for the SSD to perform and last longer/faster?
Lastly, I know there's lots of opinions out there but if someone could give me some honest answers regarding what I have to do after putting the SSD in the Macbook that would be great.