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Just installed the intel x25-m SSD in my 2.53ghz unibody mbp~

Here is my xbench report from the stock 5400rpm hdd that came with my 15" unibody macbook pro 2.4Ghz.

Results 98.61
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS543225L9SA02
CPU Test 142.96
GCD Loop 248.97 13.12 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 120.34 2.86 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 99.23 3.27 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 179.37 31.23 Mops/sec
Thread Test 273.39
Computation 441.50 8.94 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 198.00 8.52 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 173.27
System 194.68
Allocate 236.08 866.97 Kalloc/sec
Fill 164.04 7975.84 MB/sec
Copy 196.92 4067.28 MB/sec
Stream 156.11
Copy 149.29 3083.48 MB/sec
Scale 149.35 3085.54 MB/sec
Add 163.78 3488.83 MB/sec
Triad 163.30 3493.43 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 196.20
Line 159.71 10.63 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 207.63 61.99 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 169.98 13.86 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 164.27 4.14 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 410.53 25.68 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 145.20
Spinning Squares 145.20 184.20 frames/sec
User Interface Test 295.48
Elements 295.48 1.36 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 25.51
Sequential 44.87
Uncached Write 51.94 31.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 37.35 21.14 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 45.00 13.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 47.84 24.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 17.82
Uncached Write 6.43 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 27.56 8.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.06 0.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.45 11.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]


I will post the results of the SSD hopefully by next wednesday!!!
 
spaceballl said:
For those interested, I'll likely be buying this one within the next two weeks. It's ALMOST as fast as the OP's SSD in most tests and I believe slightly faster in a few. It's available for $500 here from Newegg.

Question to the OP - were you able to do any tests regarding power draw? I'm convinced about the performance, but I'm wondering if I will see any noticeable increase in battery life. Thanks!
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My mbp is 90% of the time hooked up to my 24" LED ACD with the magsafe adapter so I havent had a chance to test the battery life.

The only reason I really went with the intel x25-m (besides the overall speed) is that intel uses a superior controller. And its longevity is the ability to write (only thing that wears out is write ability on SSD drives) more than a 100gb a day for 5 years, so it will last me more than 15+ years. :D
 
^^ If that is so then to get what brand really depends on the needs of the buyer. Of-course I wouldn't mind my SSD to only last 5 years since I think by that time I would get a new 2048GB SSD already :D
 
infernohellion said:
^^ If that is so then to get what brand really depends on the needs of the buyer. Of-course I wouldn't mind my SSD to only last 5 years since I think by that time I would get a new 2048GB SSD already :D
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The thing is I check the activity monitor to see how many writes I do per day and its somewhere around the average of 20GB writes per day but on a heavy use day, say around 3 times per week I would write about 50GB or a little more per day. (Only when I go d/l happy I have done this a few times, d/l about 100GB that day).

So just do the math and the intel x25-m will easily outlast 3-4 more of my new notebooks. Also andtech reviewer mentioned that like cpu's can be overclocked and still last much longer than what its rated lifetime, the same can be said about the intel x25-m.

Basically I'm not worried about its writes dying on me any time soon, say in the 15 years. :D
 
Sorry OP. (LoL) I was going to get the x25-m but NE just posted the x25-E "Extreme High Performance" SSD for a couple extra dollars. Hehe. We'll have to see who has the fastest MBP :D
 
jjahshik32 said:
And its longevity is the ability to write (only thing that wears out is write ability on SSD drives) more than a 100gb a day for 5 years, so it will last me more than 15+ years. :D
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Indeed... however, I plan to eBay my MacBook Pro in a year or so, 256GB SSD included, so longevity isn't that important to me!
 
Eddyisgreat said:
Sorry OP. (LoL) I was going to get the x25-m but NE just posted the x25-E "Extreme High Performance" SSD for a couple extra dollars. Hehe. We'll have to see who has the fastest MBP :D
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Actually its more like 2.5x as expensive.
 
alphaod said:
Actually its more like 2.5x as expensive.
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¿Have you checked the prices recently? Unless you mean in terms of price/gb. Well then, yeah, its more expensive, but i'm talking about the overall costs of the drives.

That said, I opted for the x25-m. The x25-e is way too specialized of an application for me to use effectively. The write speeds may be high but at 32 gb I won't be able to justify the premium.
 

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I'd really like to get one of these for the MBP I hope to buy this summer, but I need at least 120GBs, as I'll have a Fat32 partition of Vista. If they have 120GB drives for under $350 this summer, I'll probably bite.

And yeah, I'd really like to hear how this affects battery life... a few extra minutes? Or upwards of an extra hour?
 
The OCZ Apex gets a very good review in comparison to the Intel.

"The first obvious comparison for the Apex 250GB SSD is to the Intel X25-M 80GB SSD that has become the darling of the solid state market. When it came on the scene it was simply worlds faster than anything else available and still will likely hold the crown of the fastest MLC drive on the market. But the OCZ Apex drive, with its very unique dual-controller RAID-0 configuration, is able to compete in a way that no other JMicron-based drive has been able to thus far. "

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=661
 
This thing is retardedly fast. All i can say is wow. I am running my windows 7 partition and all my media off my external hdd and everything is working like a charm. I cant ask for anyting better than this, this is the single best upgrade i have ever done to any computer in my life. Here are my xbench results:

Results 188.67
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G55)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,1
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC
CPU Test 150.30
GCD Loop 250.79 13.22 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 125.54 2.98 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 108.46 3.58 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 183.80 32.01 Mops/sec
Thread Test 303.14
Computation 426.93 8.65 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 235.00 10.11 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 167.18
System 186.92
Allocate 268.20 984.91 Kalloc/sec
Fill 164.38 7992.70 MB/sec
Copy 160.31 3311.15 MB/sec
Stream 151.21
Copy 143.61 2966.27 MB/sec
Scale 143.20 2958.55 MB/sec
Add 158.61 3378.81 MB/sec
Triad 161.24 3449.26 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 200.12
Line 159.24 10.60 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 212.43 63.42 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 174.07 14.19 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 167.45 4.22 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 438.30 27.42 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 139.50
Spinning Squares 139.50 176.97 frames/sec
User Interface Test 206.49
Elements 206.49 947.70 refresh/sec
Disk Test 240.34
Sequential 162.54
Uncached Write 132.33 81.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 123.15 69.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 151.55 44.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 428.32 215.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 461.00
Uncached Write 384.88 40.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 223.84 71.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2060.32 14.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 888.29 164.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Wanted to let everyone know that I got my G. Skill 256gb Titan installed. WOW. I love it. I've already installed it in my 2.4ghz classic MBP. This thing really screams now. I don't doubt that the Intel is a bit faster, but not sure if you would notice in "real world" tests. My apps boot so quickly, my computer's boot time is a FRACTION of what it used to be, and it feels like I'm playing w/ a whole new system. I feel like the difference between moving from HD to SSD is much more significant than when I went from a 2ghz Core Duo Macbook to a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo MBP.

I'll give more detailed impressions in 24 hours or so after i have a chance to play with it.
 
Corsair SSD S128

Just adding some more numbers to the pile. This seems like the place to do it.

Corsair SSD S128
2.2 SR MBP
SATA I
4GB Ram

Disk Test 109.39
Sequential 95.39
Uncached Write 128.83 79.10 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 129.06 73.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 47.91 14.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 180.28 90.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 128.20
Uncached Write 50.52 5.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 119.17 38.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1190.19 8.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 459.52 85.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Yes I know it's not a world beater.

Stability and an increase in performance was what I was after, and it's what I got in droves. :cool:
 
Impressive results, but completely useless to me until they're at least 512gb. Not dissing the op at all, as everyone uses their equipment differently, but 80gb would *kill* me.

Now if only Apple released a 10" MBA with a 80gb ssd...ooh baby.
 
The difference might be the southbridge controller. The newer Macbook Pro's I think have the ICH10 which fully supports SATAII. The older machines like the C2D 2.0Ghz have the older IHC9 controllers which in theory support SATA interfaces up to 300mbit/s but have been documented in other forums to vary in throughput capabilities depending on implementation and version. I think on some of the older thinkpads with the ICH9, it was actually capped at 80MB/s. Mechanical drives, especially those that went into laptops, weren't nearly as fast as today's SSDs, so it wasn't so much of an issue.

Even on older machines, I would suspect the difference in performance to be rather dramatic. Older machines tend to have more data on them, decreasing performance. An SSD isn't susceptible to the same inverse relationship between data stored and performance.

louden said:
Hmm - your XBench scores are much better than that posted on Newegg's comment section on an C2D 2.0GHz:

Post SSD:
Disk Test 169.00
Sequential 105.83
Uncached Write 121.22 74.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 108.47 61.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.00 18.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 224.44 112.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 419.27
Uncached Write 551.58 58.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 200.52 64.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1021.11 7.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 567.86 105.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Your numbers look closer to the Intel spec -

Does anyone have any idea why this XBench test is so much faster? Is it the SATA version?
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More Benchmarks - Corsair S128GB SSD

Here are some more benchmarks from my 2.2 SR MBP (SATA I) and the Corsair S128GB SSD.

xBench wasn't cutting the mustard so I bought Quickbench and Zonebench from SpeedTools.com for further testing. Enjoy! :cool:
 

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CTechKid said:
Here are some more benchmarks from my 2.2 SR MBP (SATA I) and the Corsair S128GB SSD.

xBench wasn't cutting the mustard so I bought Quickbench and Zonebench from SpeedTools.com for further testing. Enjoy! :cool:
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Looks somewhat similar to the Apple (Samsung) 128GB SSD.
 

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