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SSD vs. HDD

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scallopdelion

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I hear the Solid State Drives in the new Macbook Pros are not the top of the line SSD's that you hear about. Anyone out there with the SSD 128GB Drive, can you recommend the $300 upgrade?

I run production and design Adobe products (graphic design, Flash, and a small amount of video) plus a few games (Steam on Mac), in addition to my email/internet/every day uses.

Thanks!
 
Yeah, but even the lower end SSDs will probably provide a boost in read/write times :)
There's also the added bonus of less power used from SSDs, and less heat produced-- either way they're great things to have for a laptop.

Personally though I'd look into an OCZ SSD, they're the top of the market right now. You'd have to manually install it yourself, though.
 
scallopdelion said:
I hear the Solid State Drives in the new Macbook Pros are not the top of the line SSD's that you hear about. Anyone out there with the SSD 128GB Drive, can you recommend the $300 upgrade?

I run production and design Adobe products (graphic design, Flash, and a small amount of video) plus a few games (Steam on Mac), in addition to my email/internet/every day uses.

Thanks!
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just curious, but which MBP are you planning to get?
 
personaly i think a ssd is not worth the money until its cost per gig equals a harddrive they are a waste of money for me now when i can get a ssd 512 gb for the cost of 100 hundred dollars i will consider it thats around the price you can get a 500 gig laptop drive right now i believe
 
ljonesj said:
personaly i think a ssd is not worth the money until its cost per gig equals a harddrive they are a waste of money for me now when i can get a ssd 512 gb for the cost of 100 hundred dollars i will consider it thats around the price you can get a 500 gig laptop drive right now i believe
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The capacity is not the point. Even 80GB is fine as boot&app drive, then store your files in OptiBay, external HD or NAS
 
scallopdelion said:
Anyone out there with the SSD 128GB Drive, can you recommend the $300 upgrade?
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I would suggest skipping on the SSD for now and upgrading it yourself sometime down the line. We should be able to get 160GB Intels by early 2011 for under $300... and for now, get a Seagate Momentus XT if you want a faster drive option.

The Apple SSD is not the best but it will still be better than any HDD, and they might possibly enable TRIM support, which will more likely support the Apple SSDs, so if you must have it now, and want to not DIY, then its not a bad option really IMO.
 
Hi there,

New to posting so hopefully I don't do anything wrong. Not entirely sure if this is the right thread but here goes.

I have a previous gen 13" MBP, 2.53ghz with 4gb ram what would be the best SSD to get to house the OS and key apps if it were coupled with another HD and an MCE optibay?

Thanks heaps :):)
 
rversteegh said:
Hi there,

New to posting so hopefully I don't do anything wrong. Not entirely sure if this is the right thread but my idea seems similar.

I have a previous gen 13" MBP, 2.53ghz with 4gb ram. Currently it has its stock 250gb hard drive because at the time I was buying an i5 iMac too and decided it would be better to spend money on the MBP later. I like the size but not its lack of capacity and so I have a couple of questions relating to it.

The idea: MCE Optibay to house a 750gb 7200rpm HD and an SSD for OS and key/most used apps in the standard slot.

The questions:
What is the best SSD to use for this, looking in the 120gb and up range probably?
Is there anyway to turn off the 750gb drive to save battery and prevent heat?
And most importantly, is this even a good idea?

Thanks heaps :):)
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1. 80GB Intel should be enough unless you have a LOT apps. BTW, there is no 750GB 7200rpm drive, it's 5400rpm

2. AFAIK, you cannot turn it off but it doesnt suck the battery when it's idling
 
Hellhammer said:
1. 80GB Intel should be enough unless you have a LOT apps. BTW, there is no 750GB 7200rpm drive, it's 5400rpm

Oops my bad, I thought Seagate had one. Yeah I though about that after I posted it and added up apps and libraries and only got about 40-50gb seeing as I hear that it's ideal to leave a reasonable amount of free space with SSD drives?

Also would a Seagate Momentus XT give some performance benefit or does that only apply to what's on the hybrid part?

Thanks :)
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rversteegh said:
Hellhammer said:
1. 80GB Intel should be enough unless you have a LOT apps. BTW, there is no 750GB 7200rpm drive, it's 5400rpm

Oops my bad, I thought Seagate had one. Yeah I though about that after I posted it and added up apps and libraries and only got about 40-50gb seeing as I hear that it's ideal to leave a reasonable amount of free space with SSD drives?

Also would a Seagate Momentus XT give some performance benefit or does that only apply to what's on the hybrid part?

Thanks :)
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http://barefeats.com/hard134.html

Improvement yes. Dramatic no.
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I'm guessing that the general consensus from other forums regarding the SSD would be to go for one of the 80gb X25-M G2 Intel ones?
 
would a raid 0 on two momentus xt's provide a good reliable and cheaper alternative to a small ssd and a big storage drive?
 
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