Corsair SSD Dissected MBP *BENCHMARKS ADDED*

[J.Genius]

Just thought i would rip this apart for you guys....

 

[J.Genius]

the last picture

Drive is $408 Canadian from Newegg.ca

 

[J.Genius]

will post stock hdd benchmarks soon

 

[CTechKid]

What rig have you mated this drive to?

 

[J.Genius]

What rig have you mated this drive to?

MBPU - 2.4/3GB/128SSD/10.5.6

 

[wbyung]

Looks like its a Samsung OEM drive.

 

[chriscamp]

I put one in my unibody MBP 2.8 when they first hit the stores a month ago. No problems at all and as fast as you could need! Chris

 

[kastenbrust]

so its a Samsung... hmm...interesting.

 

[bruf]

Stock benchmark soon?

I've got the same unibody MBP, and I was considering the same Corsair SSD from NCIX/Newegg, so I'm really looking forward for you to post the stock HDD benchmarks using the same computer and same software.

The question is, is it really worth it @ 4x the cost of a Scorpio/Momentus 320GB 7200RPM?

Thx,

 

[johata3]

Could someone kindly explain what this is? I'm kind of curious about this.

 

[winninganthem]

Could someone kindly explain what this is? I'm kind of curious about this.

You mean the thing he took apart, right?

It's a solid state harddrive, or SSD. SSD's are the next big thing in notebook computers because unlike platter-based harddrives, SSD's do not have any moving parts. Also, in a lot of different benchmarks and personal experiences, SSD's give incredibly fast read and write times.

It seems that with all of the advanced hardware available today, the bottleneck of a computer system is the harddrive. SSD's seem to eliminate that bottleneck. The only caveat to having an SSD is that at the moment, they're pretty damn expensive.

I hope I answered your question, and I am sorry if you were asking about something else; I don't mean to insult you if you already knew what an SSD was.