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Well if you're only timing it from when the spinner appears, my Crucial SSD boots to fully working desktop in 4 seconds so you're still not getting the value out of that Intel.

I know you say boot up isn't important to you but sluggishness there is probably indicative of under performance in other areas.
 
I have to say I'm really impressed by the X25-M. I got a 1st gen 80GB because the 2nd gen didn't came fast enough and is now much more expensive... My 13" MacBook Pro is completely booted to the desktop (and I have to type my user account password) faster than my PC BIOS POST! That IS impressive!
 
Are consistent with others who have this drive? Uhm, I don't think so. I've been checking YouTube on these drives in combination with a Macbook (Pro) and I've seen boot times from 15 to 25 seconds. I'm getting it myself on monday and I'm hoping on 15, max 20 seconds :).
 
I've been doing some research, and it seems like there are quite a few people with nvidia chipset notebooks who are noticing decreased performance with the G2 SSDs. (not specific only to MacBook Pros)

I wonder what a comparison would like between an older intel based MacBook pro and a new unibody nvidia based one would look like...
 
adamk77 said:
I agree as well.

I just measured my boot up time again for both my HDD and my SSD. But this time, I started the timer as soon as I saw the spinning activity indicator. I figure that this is when the operating system actually starts performing disk IO operations.

Regular HDD: 41 seconds
Intel X25-M: 12 seconds
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Have you changed your boot settings yet in the 'System Preferences' menu?
If not, go to that menu, then under the 'System' row, there will be an icon for 'Startup disk'. Select your SSD drive as your startup disk and see if that changes anything from when you turn your system on until it starts reading the drive.

To anyone in the know: Shouldnt that time be the same on every comparable system with the same bios? Am I missing something here?
 
adamk77 said:
Spike,
Yes, I've done that. But that doesn't make a difference.
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Hum. Interesting. I wonder why then. Do we know if it has to do with the boot drive being in the optical bay? Have you tried it the other way around?
 
adamk77 said:
Well, at this point, it's just a curiosity for me. I don't feel motivated to spend the time to open up my laptop and switch them. And even if that is the answer, I plan on keeping my HDD in the HDD slot as it has the shock sensors.

And as I've noted in a previous post, the videos of people with the X25 on an aluminum unibody Macbook Pros are posting an average boot up time of 30 seconds or so.

All other things work perfectly. Applications load blazingly fast. The benchmarking program xbench shows similar results to others with the drive. I can live with my machine booting 10 seconds slower (if it indeed is booting slower -- that's even arguable according to the videos) :)
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I am just curious as well. Doesn't make sense to put the HDD anywhere else anyways. I am excited to get my X25, but I think I am going to have to wait awhile. :(

Boot times are fun to watch when they get super fast, but its not a metric to base decisions on in my opinion.
 
Yea, there is no stock anywhere in Canada. I was reluctant to pre-order, as I didn't want to buy it and wait, just to have it pop up somewhere else.
But I found a company that isnt registered in Quebec, so I wont have to pay PST, so tax will be 5% instead of 15%, which is significant on an item that cost this much. So, I will wait... Impatiently. Kinda glad I locked in a price though, because newegg.ca is raising the prices gradually on the Gen1s, so I cant imagine what the price of the Gen2's will be once they post them. Other sites I have seen are doing the same.
 
probably cheaper than Intel

but the X25 is the most compatible with our mid-2009 MBP with EFI 1.7 so far...
 
zw-gator said:
For the price you pay for an SSD, I'm not impressed
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I'll make a new video when I upgrade to SL next week. :D Shutdown with multiple apps open is around 6 seconds :eek: ... but I really don't care much about those times, since I never shutdown my MBP anyways. But still, it's an amazing improvement over a hard drive.
 
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