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pedrofan

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I preordered it a month ago and I received it today. After a fresh OSX leopard install it boots in five seconds!!! Photoshops opens instanctly, and everythings goes like in real time, no lags anymore!! And the best is that with my 17" 2,3GHZ i7 macbook pro it prolongs battery life up to 10 hours in web browsing!!

I have noticed that it has no problems with hibernation. So it works just PERFECT!!

This is amazing!!
 
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Can you post a video? Boot times are always moot unless there is video proof. MBA owners claimed their MBAs boot in 5 secs although the fastest tests show boot times of around 15 seconds.
 
pedrofan said:
I preordered it a month ago and I received it today. After a fresh OSX leopard install it boots in five seconds!!! Photoshops opens instanctly, and everythings goes like in real time, no lags anymore!! And the best is that with my 17" 2,3GHZ i7 macbook pro it prolongs battery life up to 10 hours in web browsing!!

I have noticed that it has no problems with hibernation. So it works just PERFECT!!

This is amazing!!
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Is that in the HDD spot? Or are you using an optibay?
 
How are you timing to get five seconds? Start from a powered off state and time from pushing the power button until after login and in the desktop. I don't see how you can get five seconds doing that.
 
fools ;)

Fortunately, the kind people at Macrumors posted a warning on the front page for us dimwits so we don't make post like "Really? "


thank you MR :)
 
It would be cool if you'd gotten one - especially since OCZ is ironing out some firmware issues before releasing them... :p

Nice try though. Hehe.
 
Do this...turn your system off.

Power on and then count the rotations of the pinwheel/gear before you see login/desktop.

That's the best way to measure it. I get 1.5-2.5 full turns of the pinwheel/gear before I see desktop.
 
pedrofan said:
I preordered it a month ago and I received it today. After a fresh OSX leopard install it boots in five seconds!!! Photoshops opens instanctly, and everythings goes like in real time, no lags anymore!! And the best is that with my 17" 2,3GHZ i7 macbook pro it prolongs battery life up to 10 hours in web browsing!!

I have noticed that it has no problems with hibernation. So it works just PERFECT!!

This is amazing!!
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I'm confused.

My OWC Extreme has been doing that in 5 secs for a year now.

Am I missing the point of this thread?
 
It's out, I got one from The Egg a couple days ago. Others have thm but it was only the 120GB at the Egg. The post above is a joke probably, as it spells like one.

Anyway, I maybe a fool, but here are the Xpbench scores for the (real) Vertex 120 I just installed in a 2011 13" 2.7Ghz. The Intel 510 didn't work, although I will try it again as this one is smokin


Results 428.53
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.7 (10J3250)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro8,1
Drive Type OCZ-VERTEX3
Disk Test 428.53
Sequential
Uncached Write 209.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 226.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 35.27 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 310.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random
Uncached Write 133.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 205.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 21.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 293.92 MB/sec [256K blocks]

note: not an April 1 joke, belive it or not. If it was, I would have jacked up the scores to the manufacturer's lofty claims LOL

So it's using the SATA 6gbps link. I didn't do anything special really. I did reset the SMC/pram thingy before I initialized it. This time I looked to see if it was negotiating before I initialized. I suggest to use this approach, but it probably doesn't make any difference. The Intel didn't work and this one does?, WTF?. All the theories about the crippled cable, and whatever are maybe moot, i'm afraid.
 
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mac jones said:
Oops. Your probably right. Now i'm going to have nightmares. But maybe OCZ is like totally awesome and has fixed everything!

Nah...
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Be optimistic. Keep us informed how it performs. What is boot time by the way? About 15 seconds?
 
lavrishevo said:
Be optimistic. Keep us informed how it performs. What is boot time by the way? About 15 seconds?
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YES! I like you. :)

Be optimistic in the midst of overwhelming failure, lies, bait and switching,
apathy, product hype, faulty specs, April fools, and last but not least...
dwindling bank account.

Shoot me please......:)
 
mac jones said:
YES! I like you. :)

Be optimistic in the midst of overwhelming failure, lies, bait and switching,
apathy, product hype, faulty specs, April fools, and last but not least...
dwindling bank account.

Shoot me please......:)
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I'll give you $150.00 for it if you regret your decision... LOL. I am on the bench with either getting the Momentus Hybrid or an SSD when one brand seems to work well. Funny, boot time on a clean install on the Apple stock 5400 is 19 seconds. After my time machine restore it went up to 24 seconds, which is not bad at all. The 750 gigs is what I like the most.
 
mac jones said:
It's out, I got one from The Egg a couple days ago. Others have thm but it was only the 120GB at the Egg. The post above is a joke probably, as it spells like one.

Anyway, I maybe a fool, but here are the Xpbench scores for the (real) Vertex 120 I just installed in a 2011 13" 2.7Ghz. The Intel 510 didn't work, although I will try it again as this one is smokin


Results 428.53
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.7 (10J3250)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro8,1
Drive Type OCZ-VERTEX3
Disk Test 428.53
Sequential
Uncached Write 209.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 226.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 35.27 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 310.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random
Uncached Write 133.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 205.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 21.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 293.92 MB/sec [256K blocks]

note: not an April 1 joke, belive it or not. If it was, I would have jacked up the scores to the manufacturer's lofty claims LOL

So it's using the SATA 6gbps link. I didn't do anything special really. I did reset the SMC/pram thingy before I initialized it. This time I looked to see if it was negotiating before I initialized. I suggest to use this approach, but it probably doesn't make any difference. The Intel didn't work and this one does?, WTF?. All the theories about the crippled cable, and whatever are maybe moot, i'm afraid.
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I may be a fool but what happened to those.. 500MB write/reads?...
 
KJmoon117 said:
I may be a fool but what happened to those.. 500MB write/reads?...
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That's just rubbish that they supply on demand. Anantech had reviews so we knew what to expect. If we relied on the manufacture claims alone, we be using slide rules and riding donkeys.
 
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