Best SSD?

[rme]

I have an OWC mercury extreme.....

Please run Xbench and post the results!
I found these results : http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=429019&setCookie=true , but the read performance seems kinda low.

 

[newdeal]

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I won't bother posting the exact results because those results you posted the link to are very close to what I am getting. All of those benchmarks are about 5% higher than my drive gets across the board.
Not sure what computer they used but keep in mind that 1) Xbench is old and isn't a good benchmarking software and 2) the macbook pro doesn't have a very good Sata chip which limits the write speed of the drive considerably compared to a macpro. If I run AJAs disk test I get 160MB/s write and 226MB/s read speeds (sequential). Not as fast as advertised but its hard to do a good benchmark under OSX because xbench sucks hard and there isn't much else available. Google an intel x25-m xbench scores and you will see these aren't bad at all for xbench scores

 

[newdeal]

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https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/602059/

look at that thread it compared an HDD to apples SSD to the x25-m and x25-e for xbench scores (results are listed in xbench score not speed)

I may as well post mine which are:

disk test score 245.89

sequential score 144.45
4k write 226.22
256k write 213.59
4k read 63.66
256k read 347.23

random score 825.82
4k write 1154.06
256k write 406.57
4k read 2195.34
256k read 941.58


so basically in sequential it reads slower than an intel x25-m but writes way faster, the x25-e beats it in sequential, but in random it beats both the x25-e and the x25-m pretty much. At the end he talks about boot time etc which isn't really accurate I am sure since 50 seconds for an x25-m is way too long but the OWC boots in around 16.5 seconds from the time you press the power button until the internal drive appears on the desktop

 

[kasakka]

I just bought an Intel G2 160gb. And am reading more and more about this TRIM thing, and drive degradation. Is it inevitable that without this feature in OSX the drive will become very slow? How long will it take? Would a format and reinstall fix this garbage that gets on the drive? Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

No. TRIM would help, but overall the Intel drives own garbage collection routines handle it rather well. I've had the X25-M G2 160GB since last August and it still seems to run just as fast as it did when I got it. Boots in about 15 seconds.