Intel X25-E Extreme arrived! (Benchmarked inside)

[Some Guy 555]

Installed OS X in under 20 minutes.

First-time boot with the drive took 16 seconds from time of power button depress to desktop screen.

Second boot time took 7 seconds.

Here is the xbench results:

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=384299&doc2=1&setCookie=true

This drive is absolutely rediculous in the mbp.

 

[travis64]

7secs yea right video

 

[jamesryanbell]

Good grief, that's fast.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

7 Seconds?

Fresh install?

SATA II Bus (3.0 Gbps?)

I could believe it.

Remember, the x25-E is a beast at random reads and writes. Its an SLC based server drive.

 

[wakeborder556]

video of boot please

 

[bbadalucco]

7 Seconds?

Fresh install?

SATA II Bus (3.0 Gbps?)

I could believe it.

Remember, the x25-E is a beast at random reads and writes. Its an SLC based server drive.

Hmm, following are my specs:
Mid 2009 17" MBP
3.06 CPU
8gb Ram
Intel X25-E 64 gb with 40gb remaining.

Boot time usually between 30-34 seconds.

What gives?

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Hmm, following are my specs:
Mid 2009 17" MBP
3.06 CPU
8gb Ram
Intel X25-E 64 gb with 40gb remaining.

Boot time usually between 30-34 seconds.

What gives?

That's pretty slow. My x25-m boots faster and its in the 1st gen Macbook Pro's with the SATA I bus!

I'd boot in verbose mode, that'll tell you what's holding up the process.

 

[bbadalucco]

Would it boot faster with 4gb ram rather than 8gb...won't change regardless but am curious.

 

[Some Guy 555]

Hmm, following are my specs:
Mid 2009 17" MBP
3.06 CPU
8gb Ram
Intel X25-E 64 gb with 40gb remaining.

Boot time usually between 30-34 seconds.

What gives?

Really? That was the time for my 320GB HDD (7200rpm).

Do you have a login screen or do you have it set to just head straight into desktop? From the white screen to desktop is usually around 17 seconds flat for me now, slowest yet is 22 seconds while the fastest was 7 seconds (restart, not really a shutdown and turn on).

What firmware do you have on it?

To bbadalucco: It will not boot faster with 8gb of ram versus 4gb. Ram is only useful to handle many applications running at the same time, thats it. A faster CPU and better SSD will speed up boot though.

My specs (although they are in my sig)

Early 09 uMBP
CPU: T9550 (2.66ghz core 2 duo, 6mb L2 cache)
GPU: 9400M & 9600M GT w/ 512mb Vram
4GB DDR3 ram
HD: Intel X25-E Extreme SSD (64GB size, small yes but I don't need capacity, I'll use external storage for that).

 

[bbadalucco]

I have the 17", and all software is up to date. I just timed it from the white screen on startup....27.5 seconds?

The drive is really fast, but something slows it down on startup I guess.

 

[Some Guy 555]

7 Seconds?

Fresh install?

SATA II Bus (3.0 Gbps?)

I could believe it.

Remember, the x25-E is a beast at random reads and writes. Its an SLC based server drive.

Yeah it was right after a fresh install I restarted it to see the boot time, once it hit the white screen I counted 7 seconds to the desktop.(although it could have been 6-9 seconds due to human error in counting seconds

This thing cost me both my arms and half of my left leg... glad it wasn't a dud but then again I have never heard of any faulty intel SSD... yet.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

This thing cost me both my arms and half of my left leg... glad it wasn't a dud but then again I have never heard of any faulty intel SSD... yet.

I'd keep a backup just in case. This is my second x25-m, my first one died on me after 3 months (see my post), out of no where. I didn't try anything funky and it was the latest firmware. Just one day it started running really slow and the next day my data vanished and the drive was unusable.

Just sayin

 

[jimthegreek]

I just finished a fresh install of OS X on my june,09 17" uMBP with the 160GB 1st gen X25 Intel SSD and an upgrade to 8GB of memory. Holy crap, this thing screams! I'm seeing boot times of about 8-10 seconds in OS X.

I'm very happy over the stock 500GB drive that was in this thing.

 

[Some Guy 555]

I'd keep a backup just in case. This is my second x25-m, my first one died on me after 3 months (see my post), out of no where. I didn't try anything funky and it was the latest firmware. Just one day it started running really slow and the next day my data vanished and the drive was unusable.

Just sayin

Oh oh... I really hope that doesn't happen with my X25... then again if it does I can probably claim the warranty with intel which I believe is... 3 years?

Anyways, I went out and bought a cheap external 2.5" sata enclosure for my previous HDD (320GB @ 7200rpm) as my backup.

 

[adamk77]

Some Guy, where did you buy your SSD and for how much?

 

[mls64]

my 13" MBP 2.26/4G with 128gb Toshiba SSD boots in about 17sec and shuts down in about 7 sec. So the numbers posted for the Intel are certainly within the realm of possibility.

 

[Some Guy 555]

Some Guy, where did you buy your SSD and for how much?

I am in Canada so I payed in CAD here is where I bought it from (newegg.ca)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167014

For everyone in the US, this is what you pay:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167014


Excellent SSD IMO.

 

[adamk77]

I am in Canada so I payed in CAD here is where I bought it from (newegg.ca)

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167014

For everyone in the US, this is what you pay:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167014


Excellent SSD IMO.

Ouch... I'd be biting off more than I could chew at that price.

 

[Onay]

How does the X25-E affect your battery life?

 

[Andrew Henry]

Hate to rain on your party, but try 2 of them in Raid 0, now that's fast!

 

[alphaod]

Hmm, following are my specs:
Mid 2009 17" MBP
3.06 CPU
8gb Ram
Intel X25-E 64 gb with 40gb remaining.

Boot time usually between 30-34 seconds.

What gives?

40GB remaining? Seriously what do you have installed?

I mean I would haven bought that great drive if only it had about twice as much capacity. I need at least 70 GB just to function.

 

[Chad H]

In no way possible does that machine boot in 7 seconds. I mean a cold boot also. You turn your computer off and start timing as soon as you hit the power button. Not the chime, grey screen, or Apple logo but power button pushed. 7 seconds isn't going to happen...period.

 

[bbadalucco]

40GB remaining? Seriously what do you have installed?

I mean I would haven bought that great drive if only it had about twice as much capacity. I need at least 70 GB just to function.

I've turned the sleep image off as i have a time machine to backup...that saves about 8 gb.

THe software that comes with the mac
-Toast 10 Titanium
-Handbrake
-Office for Mac
-iWork
-Plex
-iPhoto library
-Mac the ripper
-Adium
-etc

All my media is stored on my server...other than my iPhoto library

 

[jamesryanbell]

I've turned the sleep image off

What does that mean?

 

[sukanas]

In no way possible does that machine boot in 7 seconds. I mean a cold boot also. You turn your computer off and start timing as soon as you hit the power button. Not the chime, grey screen, or Apple logo but power button pushed. 7 seconds isn't going to happen...period.

maybe in tiger..

well yeah, please post an actual video