New era of SSD has arrived!! Crucial M500 vs new Samsung Evo!

[Bobby Corwen]

Crucial M500 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-adapter-Internal-CT960M500SSD1/dp/B00BQ8RGL6
960 GB for 599$

vs

Samsung Evo on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Elect...F8&qid=1376635899&sr=1-5&keywords=samsung+ssd
1TB for 650$


Well forget Optibay. These bad boys are here just in time for the Retina MBP era!

Samsung is sold out, but does anyone have the low-down? Is Evo equivalent or better than the pro line? Or is pro still better? Where does it fall in the order of speeds?

Samsung is clearly the better choice overall, agreed?

 

[johnnnw]

Here "just in time for the Retina era", but don't fit in Retinas

 

[Zeov]

they are very impressive indeed. But 1 TB SSD is A LOT.

imagine having two 1 TB SSD's in a Unibody MacBook...

i currently have 768GB SSD in my Retina, but if i had the option to go with 256SSD + 512GB HDD, i would have done that.. but sadly it's all flash.. i hate storing movies and music on SSD

 

[ViennaXP]

But... does it fit into my Early 2013 MBPr?

 

[aixporter]

But... does it fit into my Early 2013 MBPr?

No... OP is mislead. Retina Macs do not have user serviceable parts - meaning you can't plug these in.

 

[saturnotaku]

No... OP is mislead. Retina Macs do not have user serviceable parts - meaning you can't plug these in.

You can't plug in the specific parts mentioned in the OP but the Retina's SSDs can be replaced by the end user.

 

[ViennaXP]

We need more SSD Sellers for the Retina Macbook. As far as I know OWC is the only company ,which sales SSDs for the Retina.
Their prices are pretty high

 

[dusk007]

Is Evo equivalent or better than the pro line? Or is pro still better? Where does it fall in the order of speeds?

Evo is the replacement for the old 840. The Pro persists and is still one tier up.
It is basically a 840 with newer Nand (128Gbit chips). It isn't really any faster or slower at the same capacity. Higher cap is usually better for write performance though (and endurance).
I really doubt that anybody can possible notice any kind of performance difference between any of these modern SSDs. They are all so so close in performance.

 

[cube]

Old news. And these drives are too small.

 

[B...]

Excited to see the prices drop more.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Wait wut?


NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!!

All my storage space plans down the toilet...

I guess I just have to buy the drive and memory I want directly from Apple...

Damn, I specifically need a min of a Terabyte for all my stuff...

 

[cube]

A bigger 2.5" SSD plan would be 2TB at around $5000.

 

[Stetrain]

You can't put a standard 2.5" drive in a rMBP, but Apple generally uses custom versions of the latest SSDs in their machines.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the special blade SSDs in the Haswell rMBPs are based on the 840 Evo and Crucial M500. The fact that 1TB SSDs are becoming common also bodes well for a 1TB option in the new models.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

You can't put a standard 2.5" drive in a rMBP, but Apple generally uses custom versions of the latest SSDs in their machines.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the special blade SSDs in the Haswell rMBPs are based on the 840 Evo and Crucial M500. The fact that 1TB SSDs are becoming common also bodes well for a 1TB option in the new models.

Well I would be getting a Haswell rMBP...

 

[Gedankenlos]

they are very impressive indeed. But 1 TB SSD is A LOT.

imagine having two 1 TB SSD's in a Unibody MacBook...

i currently have 768GB SSD in my Retina, but if i had the option to go with 256SSD + 512GB HDD, i would have done that.. but sadly it's all flash.. i hate storing movies and music on SSD

Can you explain why you hate storing movies and music on SSD please

 

[Zeov]

Can you explain why you hate storing movies and music on SSD please

feels like a waste of SSD because watching a movie or listening to a song doesn't require anything near 500 Mb/s.. SSD's are still too expensive for mass storage (for the average user)

 

[xxcysxx]

all that capacity and its still stuck on sata 3, the new macbook pro is using pci express interface. that's much faster than sata 3.

beside the capacity, the speed is also what ranks up the quality of the drive.

 

[Pheo]

About time Apple sorted their flash pricing then!

 

[scbond]

Hardly a new era...the M500 has been out for some time now (like several months before the first post).

 

[yjchua95]

You can't put a standard 2.5" drive in a rMBP, but Apple generally uses custom versions of the latest SSDs in their machines.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the special blade SSDs in the Haswell rMBPs are based on the 840 Evo and Crucial M500. The fact that 1TB SSDs are becoming common also bodes well for a 1TB option in the new models.

They're based on the Samsung XP941s