Help: Placed in new SSD, very slow

[kas23]

These tools need to be taken in context and compared to others with similar configurations. You can't expect a given benchmark tool to show you theoretical maximums of a given drive or interface.

What are they good for?
--Compare before and after performance of an install
--compare drive a to drive b on a given system
--compare to others using same software

The #'s are the #'s and I wouldn't take them for being perfect. They are good for A to B comparison, that's about it.

As an example: My cheap, 64GB Sandforce based SSD running a 3gbs connection on my mac mini 5.1 gets a 75mb/s write / 180mb/sec read rating in Black Magic. that's a heck of a lot faster than the 500gb drive the machine came with.

Yes, you're right. The OEM 500 GB has read rate of about 60 GB/s, which makes the SSD read rates about 300%, or 3x, faster. That's pretty darn fast.

 

[iRCL]

Oh, I didn't know that. I am a noob with terminal, so the first part wouldn't have created a file at all then is that correct?

mkdir creates directories, you created a directory named 4g (which is technically a file but is definitely not going to be 4GB if that was the intention)

 

[brangates]

I just put a 120GB OWC Mercury Extreme SSD in my 2011 Mac mini today and using blackmagic I am getting about 240 write and like 470 read, almost maxing out the meter. I am pretty impressed with this drive so far.

 

[blanka]

I was thinking SSD too, but I finally went for the WD Caviar Black 750Gb normal drive.
This drive gives the machine a significant boost, it feels like it has a black 3,5 inch inside. Everything feels very snappy now. And it runs very cool and silent for a high speed drive.

And the upgrade is just 60 bucks. It makes it a much better deal than any SSD upgrade, and you still have plenty of room for your files.

 

[mstrike]

problem with SSD on 2010 MacBook Pro

I have Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13'' and just installed the OSZ Vertex SSD 120 GB hard drive (the first series 3 years old, but hardly used).
After installing the OS X mountain lion (connected to USB) I replaced the old hard drive and everything looks to be good (Booting time, shout down and installation of small apps).

The problem is when I try to install large applications like Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, Microsoft Office.
It takes ages and it is very slow.
During this process if I try to start System Preferences or something else, it takes again a lot of time.
Something is wrong, but I can not figure it out.
Any advice?

UPDATE that fixed my problem:
I did upgrade from 4 GB to 8 GB of memory and this solved my problem!!!