Does the stock apple SSD 128gb outperform the 500gb 7200rpm stock drive?

[aibo82]

Hi

I want to order a new macbook i7 in a few days the high-res! I just wondered is the 128gb SSD a wise choice to go for over the 7200rpm drive? and does it justify the price for performance and capacity loss ratio?


Thanks guys!

 

[GoCubsGo]

Yes. It's probably the only thing it out performs (ie: SSD > Hard Drive)

 

[King Apple]

solid states blow serial ata drives out of the water.

 

[paintballswimgu]

its not a very good SSD, but its still better then a 7200 rpm drive

 

[EstrlM3]

yes

 

[rw3]

its not a very good SSD, but its still better then a 7200 rpm drive

Define not very good...?

I have used every SSD that a Mac comes with and you are crazy if you think the stock SSDs aren't "very good". The current Toshiba drives are very fast and have far better writes than the Intel drives and can keep up in reads.

There are many great SSDs on the market, not just Intel or OCZ. SuperTalent and Toshiba make very good SSDs and believe it or not, the SuperTalent UltraDrive ME is the base for the OCZ Vertex....

Any Apple SSD will do great! Don't let this paintballswimgu tell you otherwise...

 

[GeorgeCWB]

Define not very good...?

I have used every SSD that a Mac comes with and you are crazy if you think the stock SSDs aren't "very good". The current Toshiba drives are very fast and have far better writes than the Intel drives and can keep up in reads.

There are many great SSDs on the market, not just Intel or OCZ. SuperTalent and Toshiba make very good SSDs and believe it or not, the SuperTalent UltraDrive ME is the base for the OCZ Vertex....

Any Apple SSD will do great! Don't let this paintballswimgu tell you otherwise...

I agree with this fellah, everyone is so stuck in the stereotype of how 'Apple's Stock SSD's Suck' that they forget to realise that the recent SSD change to Toshiba ridicules it.

Yeah Toshiba isn't the best, but it blows intel and other manufacturers out of the water in its performance per watt. There's a graph around here somewhere....

 

[J&JPolangin]

...where can you find the toshiba SSD's separately on line?

 

[MBHockey]

Define not very good...?

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7714416/

I wouldn't even call this 'not very good'. It's absolutely horrible for an SSD.

This is the SSD Apple was shipping in previous gen MBPs.

 

[elpmas]

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7714416/

I wouldn't even call this 'not very good'. It's absolutely horrible for an SSD.

This is the SSD Apple was shipping in previous gen MBPs.

...where can you find the toshiba SSD's separately on line?

Lol. Overcharges+1

 

[rw3]

The TS256 was a Fujitsu sourced drive by Toshiba....that is the only MBP SSD that is that bad....

 

[johnnymg]

Has anyone posted the #'s for the current Toshiba SSD in a new MBP?

Yup, there's a current thread on it!

 

[bob5820]

Define not very good...?

...believe it or not, the SuperTalent UltraDrive ME is the base for the OCZ Vertex....

Not sure what you mean here. Both drives are based on the Indilinx controller, but that's not the same as saying the OCZ vertex is based on the ST UDME

 

[bob5820]

...where can you find the toshiba SSD's separately on line?

The only SSD I know of with the Toshiba controller is the Kingston SSDNow V+

 

[EstrlM3]

going out on a limb, but didnt toshiba invent this technology?