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Anyone with a 128GB Apple SSD in 2011 MBP???

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JR1993

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Hi, If you have the 128GB SSD from Apple, would you be able to post your boot up time. I think boot up time is a good way to measure real world performance.

Oh and if someone can point out some benchmarks, that would help a lot.

Thanks
 
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Hmmmm

Lol funny……I was going to post the same question. Actually, Is it even worth it to upgrade through apple to the 128 ssd? Or is it better to buy from newegg and install your self?

What is the best SSD to get by the way if purchasing outside of apple?
 
getz76 said:
It is actually a terrible benchmark; boot times will vary due to installed applications and start-up items.
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Ohh yeah. Its just, im not someone who writes constantly so 'benchmarks' that might have a 20mb/s difference mean nothing, whereas if a MBP boots up in 10 seconds and another in 25, I can see there is a difference.

However, you are absolutely correct.
 
Biggest factor I've found in boot time are attached devices. When just power, keyboard, and mouse are in my iMac 2009 with 128OWCSSD, boot time is approx 9 seconds. With a USB BR-reader, HP scanner, and flash drive in, increase that to 25 because of polling and motor restart times.
 
Neverbepeace said:
Lol funny……I was going to post the same question. Actually, Is it even worth it to upgrade through apple to the 128 ssd? Or is it better to buy from newegg and install your self?

What is the best SSD to get by the way if purchasing outside of apple?
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That is why I ask the question too.

By going with the apple SSD I will actually save £150. If I then want an external drive for say £50, I will have still saved £100, and I dont think my usage would notice it.

Also, with the apple ssd comes the warranty, no swapping out drives if anything goes wrong. Also no worry about TRIM working on drive or not, and no beachballs. It all just works.
 
I just installed a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD in my 15" 2.3/8GB setup. My boot time is ~9 seconds from pressing the power button to up-and-running.

That said, I agree with those posters who said that boot time isn't really a valuable metric in measuring real world performance.

Good move on going with the Apple SSD if you can save on it. I love the speed of my new Crucial, but I do get occasional 20-30 second beach balls (especially when working on my Win7 VM in Parallels) and Crucial has even temporarily removed MBP 2011 from their supported devices list for the M4 SSD (pending a firmware update). I also don't like having to use the TRIM Support Enabler hack to get TRIM support. But I blame Apple for this. The OS should be able to support TRIM for any drive that supports it. Windows 7 did this out-of-the-box a couple of years ago.
 
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Tydog07 said:
Is the apple 128 SSD a good drive or are there noticeably better drives on the market? I do like the thought of it all just working.
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There are faster drives on the market, but I don't know how much noticeably faster they will be in everyday usage since I don't own one. The Apple SSD is the one that will "just work," though, since you don't have to install anything and it's covered by Apple.
 
If prices are the same when I come to buy in August I am definately going with the SSD.

I do like to have high performance, and i'm not afraid of taking a risk by buying a Vertex 3 with a high failiure rate. However, to have an SSD that has 100% TRIM support, NO beachballs, and Applecare support if I have a problem, AND save £100/£150, too good to turn down.

If I was a professional video editor, it might be a different question, but im a maths student.
 
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