early-2011 MBP 13...thinking of eventually pulling the trigger on an 830 for the main bay, then moving my 470 to the optical bay. I don't intend to stripe or mirror them. For those of you guys using two SSDs in a similar manner, do you notice the boot time is worse? Would the second SSD automatically boot with the main one and compromise boot performance?
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Anybody with dual SSDs here?
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I'd say it wouldnt hurt it.
But I dont want to buy expensive SSDs that has 500GB space so I would just go with the HDD & SSD option with optibay.
If 1TB SSD becomes affordable, I might think of it.
But again, it shouldnt be slower than the HDD & SSD option.
2 SSD should be blazing fast.
But I dont want to buy expensive SSDs that has 500GB space so I would just go with the HDD & SSD option with optibay.
If 1TB SSD becomes affordable, I might think of it.
But again, it shouldnt be slower than the HDD & SSD option.
2 SSD should be blazing fast.
I know for sure it would be in a Raid 0 setup, but I won't have that. I'll have two 128GB SSDs, which would be fine for me since my storage demands are quite modest. I'm only really tempted to do this b/c I have this issue with not taking full advantage of the SATA III connection even though the 470 is solid.
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SSDs in RAID doesn't offer much of an advantage and it can actually result in poor performance.
(This assumes non enterprise SSDs and a controller not tuned for SSDs).
SSDs in RAID doesn't offer much of an advantage and it can actually result in poor performance.
(This assumes non enterprise SSDs and a controller not tuned for SSDs).
Yeah, I'm not gonna bother with a RAID configuration. RAID 0 is also risky, it essentially increases your chances of losing all your information two fold.
I'm just wondering how the performance would be with another SSD running in the background -- presumably it will sleep a lot when not in use? When I boot up my computer I always hear the Optical Drive engage, but it doesn't really do much during normal use unless you throw a CD in there.