How fast is your SSD, and when did you buy your MacBook Air?

[jackyyeow]

I got my MBA ultimate 13" last week, thought of chiming in reporting the drive used.

Surprised! I got the old Toshiba instead.

If you guys actually use programs like coconutbattery, you can see how old is your machine. Although I just got it last week, but the age of my MBA is 22 weeks (!) old. Not sure how they actually got a machine as old as 5 months sitting around in their warehouse. Though, the battery is absolutely fresh with 0 cycle.

It was really heart sunken when I found out it's slower driver, as I'll be using it to stream lots of samples for audio works. However, 200MB isn't slow either, and the Samsung SSD seems to suffer and performance drop after using it for some time (I assumed it's write speed but not reading speed?), so hopefully it can handle whatever I throw on it...perhaps going to upgrade it to a larger SSD e.g. OWC series when the price dropped to an affordable price range.

 

[TheRealDamager]

Don't worry - it's highly unlikely you would ever notice any speed difference in normal use.

 

[krimp]

Don't worry - it's highly unlikely you would ever notice any speed difference in normal use.

got mine delivered today and its a toshiba, that kinda sucks if its slower! how do i test this thing.

 

[jackyyeow]

Don't worry - it's highly unlikely you would ever notice any speed difference in normal use.

I'll be putting lots of strains on the SSD with lots of audio samples clusters streaming from the SSD, and that's why I'm concern.

Though, I'm reading good thing about the machine on audio usage, and I think it was dated back earlier this year, so I guess I'm fine.

In the end, I don't think Apple will make such sudden decisions going from toshiba to samsung, and then samsung back to toshiba. Reading krimp also got a toshiba drive, it seems that Apple decided to put the toshiba back on the MBA. I think Apple has a good reason why they put back the initial toshiba on. Perhaps it's because of the lack of performance on TRIM of the samsung chips/controllers even under Lion?

I'm counting Apple on this.

got mine delivered today and its a toshiba, that kinda sucks if its slower! how do i test this thing.

Use AJA system test, or browse few pages back on this thread, there're a few testing application mentioned. I don't think you should be bothered to do the test, test results should be consistent across all toshiba SSD.

 

[teerexx52]

I'll be putting lots of strains on the SSD with lots of audio samples clusters streaming from the SSD, and that's why I'm concern.

Though, I'm reading good thing about the machine on audio usage, and I think it was dated back earlier this year, so I guess I'm fine.

In the end, I don't think Apple will make such sudden decisions going from toshiba to samsung, and then samsung back to toshiba. Reading krimp also got a toshiba drive, it seems that Apple decided to put the toshiba back on the MBA. I think Apple has a good reason why they put back the initial toshiba on. Perhaps it's because of the lack of performance on TRIM of the samsung chips/controllers even under Lion?

I'm counting Apple on this.


Use AJA system test, or browse few pages back on this thread, there're a few testing application mentioned. I don't think you should be bothered to do the test, test results should be consistent across all toshiba SSD.

AJA system test doesn't seem to work in Lion. Can anyone confirm that?

 

[Hellhammer]

AJA system test doesn't seem to work in Lion. Can anyone confirm that?

Works for me.

 

[teerexx52]

Works for me.

Strange. I can't get it to work on either of my Macs running Lion. I press the start icon and nothing happens

 

[Hellhammer]

Strange. I can't get it to work on either of my Macs running Lion. I press the start icon and nothing happens

Run Mission Control. It launches in the background so you don't see the window if you have other windows blocking it (happened for me).

 

[teerexx52]

Run Mission Control. It launches in the background so you don't see the window if you have other windows blocking it (happened for me).

Seems nothing else is running in the background but still it won't run

 

[nanotlj]

CJAA0201. 13" ultimate purchased Nov 10'
write: 188.9 MB/s
read: 210.9 MB/s

I am happy with that and my machine is still blazing fast for my use. Nice to see that SSD speed does not degrade after 8 months' use. Do not see a real use of trim in latest SSD.

I do not see a point for upgrade in the following 2 yrs.

 

[zzz99]

Samsung SSD!

Ordered from Apple online store with education discount and it shipped from China.


You can't really tell the 25% different between the Toshiba in the regular tasks, but faster is faster~


1-Backlight keyboard - I upgraded from the 2010 MBA, <3 it!

2-CPU - a so much more powerful CPU! I can tell when I convert video to DVD format.


GL guys!

 

[BrawndoQC]

Macbook Air 2011 i7

Size: 256 GB
Revision: AXM09A1Q

Ordered from Apple Store October 8th.

Write 249.1
Read 263

 

[paulrbeers]

Just chiming in here, no idea when my 2011 13" MBA Base was built, but it has the Toshiba 128GB drive in it based on the System Profiler. I didn't bother to bench it, what would be the point! I could really care less if my SSD can read at 200 or 250 and write at 180 or 210. It is still faster than the SSD that came in my Early 2011 MBP and blows away any mechanical hard drive.