Is there instructions step by step? Thanks.
Yes if you go to iFixiT.com look up your specific mac model and go to optical drive replacement. Or you can always youtube optibay macbook and there are quite a few installation videos.
Is there instructions step by step? Thanks.
i hav now had a patriot wildfire, vertex 3, crucial c300 and all have had nothing but issues getting SATA-3 to work in my MBP 2011 17"
Apple have been really good and agreed to test my MBP Sunday when my vertex 3 max iops drive is delivered to see if i have one of the ? faulty sata cables/logic board. Previous genius appointment showed no problems - however the patriot drive locked up and could not be read
I have gone back to my trusted OWC which despite taking a hammering - performs without flaw. I am less than impressed at their endless empty promises for a mac-only firmware updater, and even less impressed at the dirty tactics employed against ocz on the eve of the release of the vertex 3.
Also have an apple 256gb in optibay for data + home folder... not the fastest drive but beats having a spinning platter HDD any-day.
As a need for speak freak and being a a fan of sandforce drive - i have to concede that crucial M4 is a viable option. May not have the sandforce speed, however in real life performance i dare say one would be hared pressed to notice any significant differences. The combination of poor garbage collection, and lack of native TRIM in osx-lion was also an initial put off for me. However, there are various anecdotal reports of the TRIM enabler hack working well with the M4 in lion osx.
I was about to buy M4, but NewEgg suddenly jacked up the price of the M4 by almost $40.
It was $200 flat, but now it's $240.
$40 is a lot of for me, I could use that $40 to buy 8GB ram with it
I partly disagree with your comment. This is the result of testing, but Anand is rendering an opinion on what the test means and that I think is a fair topic for discussion.
i hav now had a patriot wildfire, vertex 3, crucial c300 and all have had nothing but issues getting SATA-3 to work in my MBP 2011 17"
Apple have been really good and agreed to test my MBP Sunday when my vertex 3 max iops drive is delivered to see if i have one of the ? faulty sata cables/logic board. Previous genius appointment showed no problems - however the patriot drive locked up and could not be read
I have gone back to my trusted OWC which despite taking a hammering - performs without flaw. I am less than impressed at their endless empty promises for a mac-only firmware updater, and even less impressed at the dirty tactics employed against ocz on the eve of the release of the vertex 3.
Also have an apple 256gb in optibay for data + home folder... not the fastest drive but beats having a spinning platter HDD any-day.
As a need for speak freak and being a a fan of sandforce drive - i have to concede that crucial M4 is a viable option. May not have the sandforce speed, however in real life performance i dare say one would be hared pressed to notice any significant differences. The combination of poor garbage collection, and lack of native TRIM in osx-lion was also an initial put off for me. However, there are various anecdotal reports of the TRIM enabler hack working well with the M4 in lion osx.
-Because of this, you'll probably want a SandForce-based drive (hardware-managed garbage collection and wear leveling). These drives are generally the fastest on the consumer market and the GC/wear leveling is a great thing to have without TRIM. However, they can be very finicky, and don't have a great reputation for reliability (although nothing does outside of the venerable Intel X25-M).
-Firmware updates can be a real PITA on a Mac, and you could be doing a lot of them with some of the newer SandForce drives. If you don't have a desktop suitable for swapping the drive and running firmware update or secure erase tools, you really might want to reconsider.[/b]
Just be aware of all of the following:
-SSDs fail. A lot. Don't buy the hype about reliability; they may be relatively immune to shock damage but that's about as far as it goes. If you don't have a routine backup solution (be it a desktop/file server or just a simple external hard drive) and a contingency plan in the event of failure (be it another computer or something like a standby magnetic drive fitted with a functioning copy of OSX and whatever programs you might want or need), you're looking at a potential world of hurt. Even if you do, the RMA warranty process can be annoying and slow. DON'T use an SSD as a primary storage solution. DON'T take the chance that you'll be without a functioning computer. Warranties don't cover loss of productivity.
-I've seen evidence that Apple's implementation of TRIM is not suitable for non-Apple branded drives, and can actually do more harm than good (note: it's not that the enabler hacks don't work, it's that the actual implementation of TRIM within OSX isn't suitable for most drives). For once, I don't think this is a case of Apple trying to force people into using what they want them to use (notice they don't even sell their drives as upgrades in their online store). In short: don't enable it.
-Because of this, you'll probably want a SandForce-based drive (hardware-managed garbage collection and wear leveling). These drives are generally the fastest on the consumer market and the GC/wear leveling is a great thing to have without TRIM. However, they can be very finicky, and don't have a great reputation for reliability (although nothing does outside of the venerable Intel X25-M).
Is this a discussion about Anandtech and their methods, or is this a discussion about SSDs?
I'm not a fan of the TRIM Enabler hack either as I haven't seen any technical analysis of how it actually works, and I'm weary of enabling it on hardware that Apple does not support. I would love to read something more about it though, do you have any links to articles, etc.?
It's simply a front end for what could be done manually. Essentially all it does is take your hard drive manufacturer name and changes one plist file, replacing Apple with for example Intel. This tells the system to use TRIM. I'm guessing that Apple has not bothered making much of a check for this as they intend to have TRIM working for all drives in a future update. OSX Lion 10.7.0 does not enable TRIM for my OCZ Agility 3 by default.
TRIM has no correlation to the SSD controller. Trim will work the same way whether or not you have a Crucial, OCZ, OWC etc.. Trim works on an OS level so regardless of the drive it will work the same. Now the question is whether or not your drive can handle TRIM and how the OS interacts with your specific drive.
In windows... cool story bro.
you can do anything in windows...
I'm running the TRIM command on my Vertex 3 and have had no issues, and still bench marks the same as before I enabled it. After a few months I'll know how it is long term, but for now I couldn't be happier with OCZ.