13" 2.53 MBP with OCZ Vertez results.

[TEBnewyork]

I added an Intel X25M to a new 13" MBP

I just upgraded my new 2.53GHz 13" MBP with an X25M 160gb SSD....before reading these threads

So here is my xbench test. I also was looking around on xbench and found a test for a stock 2.53GHz 13" MBP. While there has certainly been a big speed bump we don't know how good it could be.


View attachment xbench results.pdf

Here is the link to the xbench site to compare the two systems

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=374692&doc2=373700

 

[jav6454]

I just upgraded my new 2.53GHz 13" MBP with an X25M 160gb SSD....before reading these threads

So here is my xbench test. I also was looking around on xbench and found a test for a stock 2.53GHz 13" MBP. While there has certainly been a big speed bump we don't know how good it could be.


View attachment 175768

Here is the link to the xbench site to compare the two systems

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=374692&doc2=373700

Clearly your Intel drive is clogging up the 1.5Gb/s SATA connection.

 

[watergun]

I just upgraded my new 2.53GHz 13" MBP with an X25M 160gb SSD....before reading these threads

So here is my xbench test. I also was looking around on xbench and found a test for a stock 2.53GHz 13" MBP. While there has certainly been a big speed bump we don't know how good it could be.


View attachment 175768

Here is the link to the xbench site to compare the two systems

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=374692&doc2=373700

Wow, your Intel SSD really is running at half speed. Here is a comparison with my 2.4GHz umb also running on Intel X25 SSD 160GB. Everything else is faster on your new umbp tho.

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=374791

 

[bugout]

What's the firmware version of your vertex, mine keeps freezing on OSX install... tried to downgrade to 1.1 but still having the issue

I have 1.30 on mine. It hung the first time too, and I just had a hang when I tried to install vmware..

I think i'm just going to try to sell this on ebay and get another x25-m.. OCZ support has been great, but these things just aren't mac ready...

 

[zsnow]

I have 1.30 on mine. It hung the first time too, and I just had a hang when I tried to install vmware..

I think i'm just going to try to sell this on ebay and get another x25-m.. OCZ support has been great, but these things just aren't mac ready...

don't sell it yet, you don't know x25m will work on it.
I feel this drive should works fine on previous uMB.

After install macos, i have around 5 times freeze so far.
if i do time machine backup, it will for sure freeze around half of the backup.
I tried sleep and wake up, doesn't seem freeze.
So sometimes it's just random. I can still stand it right now.
Hope Indilink could release a new fw for mac. Or... apple release a fw to fix this 1.5gb.

 

[antic]

I dont now that much about how to fix this problem.
Would it be possible to use the SATA2 kernel extensions from an older 15" unibody mac and transfer them to the newer 13" / 15" model.

I have access to both laptops if someone can give me some idea of what to do.

 

[zsnow]

I dont now that much about how to fix this problem.
Would it be possible to use the SATA2 kernel extensions from an older 15" unibody mac and transfer them to the newer 13" / 15" model.

I have access to both laptops if someone can give me some idea of what to do.

no you can't. it's somewhere deeper in the firmware.
If you have a fast ssd, you can timing the startup and launch application time.
So give people an idea how much difference it is.

 

[imrichar]

Has anyone tested a Vertex 120 on the 13" uMBP? I'm less concerned with the 1.5 issue and more concerned with freezing during and post install.

 

[John566]

Same problems with the g.skill Falcon 128. I'm going to eBay it and try to be happy with a 500GB 7200RPM Segate. The Falcon worked great in the SATA II Unibody MacBook for the week I had it before the 13" MBP came out.

I could live with a small speed bottleneck but I can't live with knowing that it is going to lock up a few times a day. This is what was happening with my Falcon and the 13" MBP. I also had a heck of a time not freezing on install.

 

[imrichar]

Anyone had success with their Vertex now that the SATA firmware fix has been released?

 

[macinsanity]

I just upgraded my new 2.53GHz 13" MBP with an X25M 160gb SSD....before reading these threads

So here is my xbench test. I also was looking around on xbench and found a test for a stock 2.53GHz 13" MBP. While there has certainly been a big speed bump we don't know how good it could be.


View attachment 175768

Here is the link to the xbench site to compare the two systems

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=374692&doc2=373700

Can you apply the new SATA Firmware update and repost your xbench results? Please.

 

[Anaxarxes]

wow SSD's really push benchmarks...

I have 13" MBP with 2.53Ghz Core2 Duo and 500GB Seagate 7200rpm HDD

Applied the SATA EFI update.

Here are the results.

R

esults 149.64
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J3050)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,5
Drive Type ST9500420AS
CPU Test 170.91
GCD Loop 294.91 15.55 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 143.21 3.40 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 120.11 3.96 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 212.53 37.01 Mops/sec
Thread Test 328.34
Computation 397.60 8.05 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 279.64 12.03 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 185.55
System 215.56
Allocate 289.30 1.06 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.27 8716.43 MB/sec
Copy 204.81 4230.22 MB/sec
Stream 162.88
Copy 156.21 3226.47 MB/sec
Scale 152.90 3158.96 MB/sec
Add 172.75 3679.89 MB/sec
Triad 171.61 3671.16 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 204.40
Line 187.28 12.47 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 246.75 73.67 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 202.44 16.50 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 198.16 5.00 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 196.73 12.31 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 164.05
Spinning Squares 164.05 208.11 frames/sec
User Interface Test 296.23
Elements 296.23 1.36 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 55.16
Sequential 118.26
Uncached Write 177.47 108.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 165.62 93.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.73 17.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 184.84 92.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 35.96
Uncached Write 11.47 1.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 177.43 56.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.26 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 150.18 27.87 MB/sec [256K blocks]