Hi,
I'm still wondering if it's time to upgrade my mid-2010 MBP to the latest rMBP and if I don't upgrade now the whole machine, I could just add a bit of disk-capacity to it.. at present time, I'm using a Vertex 4 256GB SSD in place of the stock HDD and I was thinking to buy a 512 GB SSD to install in a OptiBay.. the most affordable SSD should be the Samsung 840 (non-PRO). I have some questions for you:
1) does this SSD work fine in a OptiBay? Will it reach the speed I'm seeing on my Vertex 4, i.e. about 240 MB/s read/write? The main HDD is 3Gbps SATA and the optibay should be 1.5Gbps, right? So it theoretically should reach at max 180 MB/s in the optibay?
2) I did not enable TRIM on the Vertex 4 SSD since a) it is not necessary due to the Garbage Collector mechanism integrated within the controller and b) it is known to give issues with this kind of SSD.. Is it necessary to enable it for the 840 SSD? If yes, can it be enabled only for that SSD in the OptiBay?
3) Any other suggestion about a good and reasonably-priced 512 GB SSD?
The other possibility is to install another 256 GB Vertex 4 SSD in the Optibay, with a smaller increase in disk-space.
I'm still wondering if it's time to upgrade my mid-2010 MBP to the latest rMBP and if I don't upgrade now the whole machine, I could just add a bit of disk-capacity to it.. at present time, I'm using a Vertex 4 256GB SSD in place of the stock HDD and I was thinking to buy a 512 GB SSD to install in a OptiBay.. the most affordable SSD should be the Samsung 840 (non-PRO). I have some questions for you:
1) does this SSD work fine in a OptiBay? Will it reach the speed I'm seeing on my Vertex 4, i.e. about 240 MB/s read/write? The main HDD is 3Gbps SATA and the optibay should be 1.5Gbps, right? So it theoretically should reach at max 180 MB/s in the optibay?
2) I did not enable TRIM on the Vertex 4 SSD since a) it is not necessary due to the Garbage Collector mechanism integrated within the controller and b) it is known to give issues with this kind of SSD.. Is it necessary to enable it for the 840 SSD? If yes, can it be enabled only for that SSD in the OptiBay?
3) Any other suggestion about a good and reasonably-priced 512 GB SSD?
The other possibility is to install another 256 GB Vertex 4 SSD in the Optibay, with a smaller increase in disk-space.
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