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MBP SSD advice?

jhu2 said:
Hey everyone, reviving an old topic here.

this "optibays" on ebay are almost 80% of the price that mce and owc are selling them for. i'm a bit skeptical about how well they work, if they work at all. I'm really interested in doing this for my MBP but the price of the mce/owc bays were holding me back. now i discovered them on ebay and they are so cheap theres really no reason not to do it anymore.

Does anyone have any experience with these drives?

Thanks in advance


http://cgi.ebay.com/2nd-HDD-caddy-A...age_Internal&hash=item27b4b66d9e#ht_754wt_874
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why wont a 2nd hdd bay from ebay work? it's just a piece of plastic with an external and internal connector with some wires in between.
off course it works well!
NEVER buy accessoires or kits from sites like MCE or something.
you always find a cheap alternative on ebay ;)
(where do you think MCE buy their optibays? right.. china.. from the same people where you gonna buy it )
 
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Slightly offtopic but do the OWC SSD have "Firmware Trim" I font really understand SSDs apart from which Is biggest and fastest tostart off with...
Does Sandforce mean as well as being the chip it does garbage collection aswell?
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firmware trim? did you invent that?
you have two types of "keeping your drive speedy"
1. TRIM, that is a method where your OS gives low level commands to the drive (Mac os doesn't support this and won't support it in the future because thats not a good solution)
2. Garbage collection, these method has nothing to do with you os, it's done by the controller. But this technique is in development and is still not working for 100%. But it does it's job very well.

so if your looking for an ssd for a mac, always look for an sandforce controller based ssd (sf1200 or sf1222) like vertex 2 or agility 2 or patriot inferno because only these controllers have a good working garbage collection
 
joskewarez said:
firmware trim? did you invent that?
you have two types of "keeping your drive speedy"
1. TRIM, that is a method where your OS gives low level commands to the drive (Mac os doesn't support this and won't support it in the future because thats not a good solution)
2. Garbage collection, these method has nothing to do with you os, it's done by the controller. But this technique is in development and is still not working for 100%. But it does it's job very well.

so if your looking for an ssd for a mac, always look for an sandforce controller based ssd (sf1200 or sf1222) like vertex 2 or agility 2 or patriot inferno because only these controllers have a good working garbage collection
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I was about to purchase Patriot Inferno 120g today because in my country there aren't too many SSD around.

My options:
- Patriot Inferno
- GSkill Phoenix Pro 120GB
- GSkill Phoenix Evo 120GB
- Team 'Xtreem' SandForce 120GB
- Corsair SATAII

From those options Patriot Inferno 120GB is the cheapest....

So I was about to bought it but then I read Patriot own forum with many mac users posting that their machine could not read Patriot SSD while it can read others.... Several were saying that the drive was not really compatible for mac... So, I'm going to give a second thought... I also hope that with Lion coming soon, Mac will support SSD much better.

Anyone can advice on G. Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB? They are about $50 more that Patriot Inferno 120GB
 
phassat said:
I was about to purchase Patriot Inferno 120g today because in my country there aren't too many SSD around.

My options:
- Patriot Inferno
- GSkill Phoenix Pro 120GB
- GSkill Phoenix Evo 120GB
- Team 'Xtreem' SandForce 120GB
- Corsair SATAII

From those options Patriot Inferno 120GB is the cheapest....

So I was about to bought it but then I read Patriot own forum with many mac users posting that their machine could not read Patriot SSD while it can read others.... Several were saying that the drive was not really compatible for mac... So, I'm going to give a second thought... I also hope that with Lion coming soon, Mac will support SSD much better.

Anyone can advice on G. Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB? They are about $50 more that Patriot Inferno 120GB
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Before you buy any Sandforce SSD I would advice to do some research...

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB reviews
OCZ Agility 3 120GB reviews
Corsair Force 3 120GB reviews
OCZ Agility 2 240GB reviews
OCZ Vertex 2 90GB Reviews

Newegg probably has Patriot Inferno reviews too.
 
Damn... I checked newegg and everyone reporting that the SSD were fails.... No SSD that doesn't have the issue... even Intel.

So, we should not change to SSD at all then... yet....

Some dead after 1 week, 2 weeks, a month, 4 months... No point in changing to SSD if it has very low reliability then?
 
phassat said:
Damn... I checked newegg and everyone reporting that the SSD were fails.... No SSD that doesn't have the issue... even Intel.

So, we should not change to SSD at all then... yet....

Some dead after 1 week, 2 weeks, a month, 4 months... No point in changing to SSD if it has very low reliability then?
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Samsung 470 is reliable, available all over Europe:
http://skinflint.co.uk/?in=&fs=samsung+470

Crucial M4 with firmware 2 also runs well on MBP 2011.
 
C300 doesn't seem to have perfect compatibility with Macs.

Crucial M4 with firmware 2 does.
 
So I picked up an M4 256GB to go with my new Macbook Pro and tried to install the 0002 firmware update, I must have gone through 13 CD's trying to burn the files to make a bootable disk until I realised that I need to use Disk Utility!

I feel like an idiot! :rolleyes:
 
So Samsung 470 Series should be fine on my MBP 13"?

I am going to purchase it through ebay as someone have it and willing to ship worldwide....

The more I read in the internet.... i become more terrified.... too many horror stories and out of many seems Intel is the most reliable one between others and Samsung doesn't get too many highlight but don't hear bad thing about them either....
 
Samsung 470 is great for Macs. Very fast too.

Samsung has the lowest failure rate on Newegg, for what it's worth.
 
craigy2302 said:
I have just recieved my OCZ 120GB to go in my Mid-2010 MBP when Lion is released... Starting to doubt it now before its even in :(
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Well you do have three year warranty.

I expect there's around 80 to 90% of the people that never have a problem.
 
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