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So if I order the 830 now it will come with the correct firmware?
And how will the 512 effect my battery life compared to my 500 5400rpm HDD?
And how will the 512 effect my battery life compared to my 500 5400rpm HDD?
More than likely come with the most recent firmware and it will "in theory" consume less battery life.
Great, now last question. What is the TRIM hack or TRIM enabled? I keep seeing this term pop up when I'm searching for information. Thanks again everybody!
TRIM is a process that the OS does to ssds to essentially mark a free block of data as free for the computer to write to. It increases performance.
on third party ssds, apple does not enable TRIM in OSX even if the drive supports it. The TRIM hack basically forces TRIM to be active.
Very informative answer above.
Yes, it is recommended for long-term performance. Garbage collection on the M4 is, according to Crucial, all that is needed but the two work well in concert. There are numerous threads and blog posts on reasons for this and additional settings you may want make to optimize your sleep, motion sensors, etc.
Yes, it is recommended for long-term performance. Garbage collection on the M4 is, according to Crucial, all that is needed but the two work well in concert. There are numerous threads and blog posts on reasons for this and additional settings you may want make to optimize your sleep, motion sensors, etc.
I may be mistaken, but I thought you needed Boot Camp to boot a DOS boot CD or USB. Boot Camp provides the BIOS emulation needed to boot such things - EFI doesn't have that on it's own.
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Yes. Any new SSD 830 you buy today will have the latest firmware. Only those manufactured before January 2012 would have old firmware.
I'm the same boat as the OP. I don't know much about reallife performance differences cause I haven't owned a SSD yet. What concerns me a lot is battery life. According to this article the Samsung drains a lot more power.
So personally it is M4 > S830
So personally it is M4 > S830
512GB Samsung 830 user here, and very happy.
Not noticed any hit on battery life, but noticed no gains either.
Installed and enabled TRIM enabler, which works perfectly fine.
Boot up time is 11 secs - I don't even get the spinning loading ball thing, just the apple logo and straight onto the desktop!
Very happy with it, and highly recommended. I don't know what firmware Im on but I'm not bothered with updating - more then happy with my speeds and I go by the saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'!!
See my YouTube channel, link in sig, for a review of the Samsung 830, including a speed test.....
Not noticed any hit on battery life, but noticed no gains either.
Installed and enabled TRIM enabler, which works perfectly fine.
Boot up time is 11 secs - I don't even get the spinning loading ball thing, just the apple logo and straight onto the desktop!
Very happy with it, and highly recommended. I don't know what firmware Im on but I'm not bothered with updating - more then happy with my speeds and I go by the saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'!!
See my YouTube channel, link in sig, for a review of the Samsung 830, including a speed test.....
What do y'all think of this SSD? http://amzn.to/QY7Vp6
Good points on the corsair? I tend to like to go with them over brands.
Good points on the corsair? I tend to like to go with them over brands.
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For my Crucial M4, I download the firmware ISO, burn it to disk and reboot holding down the C key to make sure it boots from the CD. No Boot Camp involved.
But did you ever install Boot Camp on that Mac? I'm not sure if the EFI CSM (compatibility support module - the EFI application that is required to boot an OS that needs BIOS emulation) is installed until you've installed Boot Camp.
This might explain why some Macs can boot a DOS CD and others cannot.
That's a good question and I can't honestly remember. I know I've installed Windows in Virtualbox and I Boot Camped my last MBP, but I can't remember whether I ever Boot Camped this one.
Not really. If the chips are fabricated on a smaller size, they'll use less power. I don't know whether the 256GB version uses twice the chips of the 128GB version or the same number with the density of the chips doubled.
Can you point me in the direction of learning how to enable TRIM, or the TRIM hack?
Thanks
All you need is Trim Enabler.
http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
Very simple to use, and works great.
See post above. That's the one. I also searched for how to disable the sudden motion sensor (why bother with it stopping a SSD during vibrations?), to prolong the time before the drive sleeps (this allows garbage collection to take place when the computer is idle), and to adjust my sleep settings to not write to the SSD every time the computer sleeps. This reduces what could be 4-16GB of writing (whatever is stored in your RAM) but comes at the risk of loosing data if your battery should die.