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vladgur

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I just tried several SSDs with my 2010 Macbook Pro with i7 cpu and Sata 2 controller and im trying to decided which one is a keeper.
Right now im torn between Corsair F115 with sandforce Sata 2 controller and Crucial C300 128gb with Sata 3 controller.
All things considered, trim support in OSX is actually available due to latest third party developments(see macrumors), so sandforce controller has minimal advantage and I actually got C300 for less and got more space to boot. Id really like to keep it.

BUT

BENCHMARKS :)

Im running two tools for OSX that I found: XBench and AJA Systems Test

As you can see from the screenshots below, with XBench, C300 wins on all counts, whereas with AJA Systems, the read speeds reported are half of those of Corsair F115.

Has anyone run into similar results with these same SSDs?
Whats a good consistent SSD benchmark for OSX?




I attached images of the OSX Profiler when these SSDs were plugged in.

Corsair AJA Test:

corsairaja.png



Crucial AJA Test: Notice half as fast write speed

crucialaja.png


Corsair X-Bench

corsairxbench.png


Crucial X-Bench: Numbers show it being faster than Corsair at writes as well as reads

crucialxbench.png



Corsair Profiler to show Sata Link speed, etc

corsairprofiler.png


and with Crucial SSD:

crucialprofiler.png



Note: I posted same question on Crucial SSD forums, but my Corsair results were removed by moderators rendering my question sort of meaningless.
 
Ah. What do you mainly use the computer for? Do you need the increased write speeds?

I understand the notion of perceived speed and I dont do videocapturing and such. What I wonder is if anyone came across similar problem with C300 on their macbooks as it seems that its only visible in a one application -- AJA.
Having a write speed at 50% of read speed is a weird situation imho.
 
I understand the notion of perceived speed and I dont do videocapturing and such. What I wonder is if anyone came across similar problem with C300 on their macbooks as it seems that its only visible in a one application -- AJA.
Having a write speed at 50% of read speed is a weird situation imho.

As far as I know all 64GB C300s are like this, and apparently so are the 128GBs. It's generally not a problem unless you do something that constantly requires writes. For me, I use it as a boot drive, so writes make little to no difference.
 
As far as I know all 64GB C300s are like this, and apparently so are the 128GBs. It's generally not a problem unless you do something that constantly requires writes. For me, I use it as a boot drive, so writes make little to no difference.

This sounds strange as XBench doesnt represent that. Its weird because this guy with a 2011 Macbook and sata3 (mine is 2010 with sata2) has write speeds that are equal to read speeds on C300...although its 256Gb
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12253587/
 
This sounds strange as XBench doesnt represent that. Its weird because this guy with a 2011 Macbook and sata3 (mine is 2010 with sata2) has write speeds that are equal to read speeds on C300...although its 256Gb
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12253587/

For the most part, the bigger the drive, the faster the specs are. Here's my 64GB Xbench score.
 

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