-I'm seeing the exact opposite my OCZ Vertex is recording a temp of 80 degrees versus my spindle based drive which clocked in at 121 F. my overall machine is running 12 degrees colder post change over, and my 1.5 year old battery at 45 percent is reporting 2:10 minutes of remaining battery time.
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G. Skill 256GB Titan SSD in my MacBook Pro... Thoughts, Benchmarks, Pics, & Ramblings
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-I'm seeing the exact opposite my OCZ Vertex is recording a temp of 80 degrees versus my spindle based drive which clocked in at 121 F. my overall machine is running 12 degrees colder post change over, and my 1.5 year old battery at 45 percent is reporting 2:10 minutes of remaining battery time.
Ocz Vertex 120 Gb - Bench Marks
Disk Test 155.52
Sequential 116.19
Uncached Write 188.91 115.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 131.96 74.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.27 17.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 213.58 107.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 235.10
Uncached Write 98.08 10.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 228.05 73.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1663.41 11.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 545.89 101.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Disk Test 155.52
Sequential 116.19
Uncached Write 188.91 115.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 131.96 74.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.27 17.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 213.58 107.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 235.10
Uncached Write 98.08 10.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 228.05 73.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1663.41 11.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 545.89 101.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
More SSD issues
Overall I've been happy with the G.Skill 256 GB SSD I threw into my Macbook Pro (early 2008), but recently I've been having fan issues. Mainly, the fans started either running on a high level (2000-5000 rpm) whenever I do anything that uses the SSD and processor in the slightest, or they start tracking my work with noise, i.e. getting louder as I do more with Photoshop or something, which is annoying. I'm going to some more testing, including opening the machine to make sure the heat sensors are placed correctly, but can anyone offer any help?
I'm running the extended version of Fan Control, and some current settings can be seen here:
http://images3.jlist.com/g2/fans.jpg
One question is, how should I read these settings? I'm not really sure what to do with lower temp threshold/upper temp threshold. Things change quite dramatically when I switch between CPU only, CPU for left and GPU for right, and GPU for both. For example, I just got the fans to quiet by selecting GPU for both, and the temperature stands at 66 degrees C, lower than before. This is fine, but I've had a few crashes or freezes of video memory which might be attributed to heat, which obviously means I need more cooling.
Does anyone have any input for me? Touching the area where the SSD is, it doesn't seem especially warm (the back left is much hotter). What temperature is "too much"? 66-75 degrees C is what I am usually seeing.
Oh joy, just had another Photoshop crash that I'd never seen before putting this thing in. Has anyone else had fan and/or crashing or freezing problems that seemed to be due to heat?
Overall I've been happy with the G.Skill 256 GB SSD I threw into my Macbook Pro (early 2008), but recently I've been having fan issues. Mainly, the fans started either running on a high level (2000-5000 rpm) whenever I do anything that uses the SSD and processor in the slightest, or they start tracking my work with noise, i.e. getting louder as I do more with Photoshop or something, which is annoying. I'm going to some more testing, including opening the machine to make sure the heat sensors are placed correctly, but can anyone offer any help?
I'm running the extended version of Fan Control, and some current settings can be seen here:
http://images3.jlist.com/g2/fans.jpg
One question is, how should I read these settings? I'm not really sure what to do with lower temp threshold/upper temp threshold. Things change quite dramatically when I switch between CPU only, CPU for left and GPU for right, and GPU for both. For example, I just got the fans to quiet by selecting GPU for both, and the temperature stands at 66 degrees C, lower than before. This is fine, but I've had a few crashes or freezes of video memory which might be attributed to heat, which obviously means I need more cooling.
Does anyone have any input for me? Touching the area where the SSD is, it doesn't seem especially warm (the back left is much hotter). What temperature is "too much"? 66-75 degrees C is what I am usually seeing.
Oh joy, just had another Photoshop crash that I'd never seen before putting this thing in. Has anyone else had fan and/or crashing or freezing problems that seemed to be due to heat?
Yeah the OCZ Vertex looks to be a great drive. I might migrate from my G. Skill to the OCZ Vertex eventually. For now I still can't justify the price... but man I do want one.
Old problem all over again 
Ok I had problems installing 10.5 onto my Titan 256 but somehow out of pure luck I was finally able to installed it back then when I first bought the drive a few months ago. Now I'm trying to install 10.6 on it and the same problem comes up again. I have 10.5.8 on the Titan drive at the moment and then I tried to upgrade 10.6. However, once the mpb booted with the install disc the mpb cannot see the drive in Disk Utility (it shows up properly under system profiler). So now I'm back to the same problem.
Is there anyone with the Titan drive having difficulties installing 10.6?
Ok I had problems installing 10.5 onto my Titan 256 but somehow out of pure luck I was finally able to installed it back then when I first bought the drive a few months ago. Now I'm trying to install 10.6 on it and the same problem comes up again. I have 10.5.8 on the Titan drive at the moment and then I tried to upgrade 10.6. However, once the mpb booted with the install disc the mpb cannot see the drive in Disk Utility (it shows up properly under system profiler). So now I'm back to the same problem.
Is there anyone with the Titan drive having difficulties installing 10.6?
I have the Titan drive. I don't exactly like the drive, given the fact that it has really slowed down over time and that it heats up an has bad write performance.....
that being said, snow leopard installed just fine - I installed it on my mbp w/ titan drive and on my girlfriend's macbook with normal drive, and there were no issues on either.
that being said, snow leopard installed just fine - I installed it on my mbp w/ titan drive and on my girlfriend's macbook with normal drive, and there were no issues on either.