OCZ SSD and Hibernation

[Jakerz]

I've been looking at getting the 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD but it has Sandforce and from what I have read on these forums is that Sandforce Solid State Drives have an issue with hibernation.

I have never put my MBP into hibernation. I always just close the lid which puts it into sleep mode. Since I never hibernate my MBP myself, what is the likelihood that I will run into the Sandforce Hibernation problem?

 

[pricej636]

I've been looking at getting the 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD but it has Sandforce and from what I have read on these forums is that Sandforce Solid State Drives have an issue with hibernation.

I have never put my MBP into hibernation. I always just close the lid which puts it into sleep mode. Since I never hibernate my MBP myself, what is the likelihood that I will run into the Sandforce Hibernation problem?

As long as you put the computer to sleep manually and not let the timer do it, you should be fine.

 

[SteinMaster]

I've been looking at getting the 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD but it has Sandforce and from what I have read on these forums is that Sandforce Solid State Drives have an issue with hibernation.

I have never put my MBP into hibernation. I always just close the lid which puts it into sleep mode. Since I never hibernate my MBP myself, what is the likelihood that I will run into the Sandforce Hibernation problem?

Don't pull the trigger yet on buying the Vertex 2. The Vertex 3 is coming soon. Also, OS X Lion may have TRIM support for SSD's. I want a SSD and am waiting until the OCZ Vertex 3 is available and will install after I upgrade to Lion.

 

[Jakerz]

Don't pull the trigger yet on buying the Vertex 2. The Vertex 3 is coming soon. Also, OS X Lion may have TRIM support for SSD's. I want a SSD and am waiting until the OCZ Vertex 3 is available and will install after I upgrade to Lion.

Has there been any reported release date? I have done some searching over the past few days and haven't found anything.

 

[mcvaughan]

Has there been any reported release date? I have done some searching over the past few days and haven't found anything.

I think I saw a 3/21 date being thrown around. Here's to hoping it's soon as I'm waiting for these as well.

 

[MMV]

There is a preference pane that I used back on my old c2d MBP that had issues going from sleep to hibernation. It's called Smart Sleep. Hibernation writes RAM to the hard drive. Not a great idea to do on a regular basis.

I ended up using the same preference pane when I put a SSD into my i7 MBP. I have it set to 'smart sleep', it'll force it to remain sleeping until the batter gets down to about 10%, then it'll start to move into hibernation, and by 5% it'll be hibernation only.

http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html

I also did a few other tweaks like turned off the sudden motion sensor, an set the mount option 'noatime' (which I could have sworn I set via /etc/fstab, but maybe I did the plist method and can't find the plist). That disables 'unix' from recording the last time a file was accessed.