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G. Skill 256GB Titan SSD in my MacBook Pro... Thoughts, Benchmarks, Pics, & Ramblings

It's in...

- It's Working! (Well)
- It sleeps!
- It's fast!

MDS and MDSWorker are cranking on my processor right now, so I'll run benchmarks once the thing settles down a bit.

I think I'll keep it.

Could the caddys be to blame in some way?
 
I am RMA'ing mine. I hope maybe I got a dud since your new one is not having sleep problems.

If I still have problems I don't know what I'll do - probably ebay the thing and maybe buy the intel one, but 160gb is not really enough for what I want.
 
pprior said:
I am RMA'ing mine. I hope maybe I got a dud since your new one is not having sleep problems.

If I still have problems I don't know what I'll do - probably ebay the thing and maybe buy the intel one, but 160gb is not really enough for what I want.
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You know - newegg gave me a credit for mine - even though I asked for a replacement, and the policy on the product noted replacements only. That added a day or so to the process.

If you have a dud - return it and see what they do.
 
I did the disk swap method of upgrading and now when Time Machine kicks in - I'm having to backup from scratch again! No fun there.

What experience have you all had with upgrading and restoring a drive and Time Machine functionality?
 
louden said:
You know - newegg gave me a credit for mine - even though I asked for a replacement, and the policy on the product noted replacements only. That added a day or so to the process.

If you have a dud - return it and see what they do.
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How did you get the credit? Did they offer or did you request?
 
pprior said:
How did you get the credit? Did they offer or did you request?
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They just did it - I'm assuming the people doing the RMA's don't look at that kind of detail very closely. You'll notice it on the RMA.

If you have a dud, I'd return it, see what they do, then contemplate waiting for future revs if they just give you back the cash.

IMO - I've got a SATA 1.5Gb/s system, so I'm really not going to get much better than this... I'll wait for nehalem to upgrade.
 
I'm still loving mine, but... I have noticed windows vmware performance to be pretty bad. I'm not sure what the technical reason for this is.... but in OS X, it's great!
 
Idle Temp?

What temp is showing for the Titan. My idle temp is 44 degrees. My Samsung SSD sat at 0 degrees.

Any thoughts?
 
dogg said:
What temp is showing for the Titan. My idle temp is 44 degrees. My Samsung SSD sat at 0 degrees.

Any thoughts?
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Hmmm... Not sure what the actual temp is, but I think your reading might have been off for the Samsung... Doesn't exactly make sense that it would be at the freezing point :D
 
BanditoB said:
I would tend to think that the battery's run time being reduced is more related to the processor being able to do more work in less time because it's being supplied data at a considerably faster rate rather than any actual increase in power consumption by the SSD; however, that's just my opinion based on what I've read so far regarding this issue.
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That's a reasonable assumption to make but it's not true. The SSD I use and some other SSDs are remarkably power efficient and get you some battery life gains even while supplying the computer with data faster. The power consumption on the Titan is due to having to supply 2 JMicron controllers and 1 internal raid controller with power. Those don't come for free, especially the raid controller. Other SSDs usually only have 1 controller and no built in raid so they use less power.
 
Sleep = Crash

Haven't lost any files yet, but it's annoying. I've got a Titan in my new MacBook unibody. The sleep problem is the only one I've noticed so far, and I can't figure out exactly what causes it to happen -- it doesn't occur consistently.

Has anyone determined if having NewEgg swap out the disc is a solution, or if this is perhaps related to firmware (or something else) on all Titans?

Thanks!
Nick
 
I've RMA'd mine to newegg, but given the prevelance of this sleep problem I think I'm going to sell it on ebay when it comes back. I really like the SSD speed, but not being able to sleep is a big problem. Bummer, but that's the bleeding edge I guess.
 
I'm wondering if the sleep issue has to do w/ the SATA controller. I'm using the Titan drive still, and I only have two issues. Battery life seems about 10% worse than before. And the drive can get warm. I've had NO sleep problems, but I'm using a Penryn Intel chipset macbook pro... I put this thing to sleep and wake it up multiple times per day.

I'm sorry about the troubles that everyone else is having... :confused::confused:

That's annoying...
 
spaceballl said:
I'm wondering if the sleep issue has to do w/ the SATA controller. I'm using the Titan drive still, and I only have two issues. Battery life seems about 10% worse than before. And the drive can get warm. I've had NO sleep problems, but I'm using a Penryn Intel chipset macbook pro... I put this thing to sleep and wake it up multiple times per day.

I'm sorry about the troubles that everyone else is having... :confused::confused:

That's annoying...
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I don't work for G.Skill, Samsung nor Corsair but at the present time, I think the best bet would be to go for the 128 GB Corsair over the Titan (128 or 256). I thought 128 would have been to small for my needs, but I just moved some stuff that I rarely use off the machine, and could have been happy with the 128. So, if I were to do it all over again (today), I'd take a close look to see if I really need 256GB.

My reasoning:
After installing the drive and OS as noted in this thread (not via a caddy) I haven't had any issues with the drive (sleep, stuttering) and love the performance. But it's not as quiet as I'd like, if only because the fan is kicking in all the time, which more than offsets the quiet disk. That's kind of important when you don't want to disturb those around you.

I wouldn't return the Titan and am looking forward to what's out there in the next year or so. It'll only get better!
 
I'd wait a little longer. The samsung is out now and the adata announcement is very exciting.
 
I agree that the corsair seems to be better / more reliable. Only thing is that it's not negotiable for me. I need the 256GB of space. I can't and don't want to move stuff to an external drive. Plus, the Corsair is too pricey. Oh well when I buy my next macbook, i'll make sure it has 256GB or 512GB built in.... in a year or so...
 
I have the Corsair 128 SSD and although it's nice and reliable there is one big disadvantage to it - pretty much every other drive in a comparable price range smokes this thing in performance. The Titan, Apex, Intel, all beat this thing in raw speed.
 
Ok after reading all the reviews by you guys I'm really impressed with this Titan SSD, but there is one major concern for me - boot camp is a must for me. I cannot use VM/Parallel to load Windows as I need to game on it. I'll be running WIndows 7 beta via boot camp but I heard that some people are having difficulty installing Windows (XP/Vista) via boot camp on this drive. Has anyone tried it? Did you encounter any problem? I'm planning to grab a new HDD (either the Titan or a 7200rpm drive) tomorrow for my unibody MBP 15" so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
One thing i've noticed for those who mention slower VM performance... I noticed the same thing. But I was playing around with VMWare settings the other day. I saw that if you go into a VM's settings, go to Hard Disks, and then click "Cleanup Disk" that seemed to REALLY have a noticeable improvement to me. Wondering if anyone else has seen the same improvement - warning though - the disk cleanup process seems to take a while, like 10 minutes or so.
 
If anyone wants a titan 256GB, I'm getting a new in box one from newegg as a replacement and given I was having sleep issues I'm going to sell mine. PM me if interested.

Edit: ordered a velociraptor last night. When I get my new titan it will be sold. Performance with this drive was outstanding, but not being able to sleep computer is too big a problem. Please keep in mind mine is a mac pro, not a macbook/pro. I'll try again in a year or two.
 
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