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OCZ Vertex 250gb

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bbadalucco

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Has anybody heard anything about them? I saw they are available on Newegg.

Just curious if it works with bootcamp, the acutal speed and the effect it has on battery life.
 
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rojames30

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i installed this drive in my 17" unibody macbook pro. it works like a charm its very fast, it also works fine in bootcamp. it can boot mac os x less than 15 seconds. i have no problems with this drive using bootcamp. vista recognize the drive with any problems. its expensive as hell!!! but its worth it
 
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rojames30

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i still get about 8 hours battery with this drive. the drive generately very little heat.
 
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rojames30

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oh yeah, i forgot to tell you guys that i don't have any problems my laptop freezing after laptop comes out of sleep mode with this drive. the laptop comes out of sleep instantly without any problems what so ever!!! vmware images boot up quick with this drive too.
 
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bbadalucco

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rojames30 said:
oh yeah, i forgot to tell you guys that i don't have any problems my laptop freezing after laptop comes out of sleep mode with this drive. the laptop comes out of sleep instantly without any problems what so ever!!! vmware images boot up quick with this drive too.
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Thanks,

I appreciate the feedback. In no way do I need one of these, but I may have to get one just in case.
 
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omegasyn

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Whatever you do, do not get the samsung 256gb SSD's....

Go for either intel or ocz. If someone with the OCZ vertex can post a xbench, that would be awesome.
 
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Thunder82

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So would you guys purchase the 250GB Vertex (775$ at newegg) over the 160GB Intel drive? (725$) I've had each drive in my shopping cart at newegg so many times.. I just can't decide!
 
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omegasyn

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Thunder82 said:
So would you guys purchase the 250GB Vertex (775$ at newegg) over the 160GB Intel drive? (725$) I've had each drive in my shopping cart at newegg so many times.. I just can't decide!
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Get the vertex, you'll get double the write speed of the current intel generation.
 
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stylinexpat

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I have the Vertex 120GB SSD with no problems but am only running Mac OS on mine with not Bootcamp. It is so quiet that I think it is dead. Running very cool too. It runs cooler than my Fujitsu P8010 with the Mtron Mobi 3000 in it.
 
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fteoath64

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Yeah, Vertex is the one to get. Waiting for the price to drop slightly. I figured the new Toshibas might be pretty quick since they had Mtron technology (probably in Asic now as the controllers of Mtron before uses FPGA which sucks power). The IndiLinx controller of the Vertex is pretty awesome and is the one to beat. Intel can have their own s*** with ridiculous pricing and tiny volumes just to keep prices up.
 
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rojames30

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i paid about $830.00 for the drive at tigerdirect.com. i replaced my stock 5400rpm drive with the vortex. the difference for as speed and performance is like night and day. where can i get the benchmark software. i will like to benchmark this drive over the weekend. please point me to the right direction. i will post results when im finish.
 
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rojames30

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results

here are the results of the test i ran on this drive.
Results 223.80
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.6 (9G2141)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro5,2
Drive Type OCZ VERTEX 00.PT1
Disk Test 223.80
Sequential 174.60
Uncached Write 281.20 172.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 145.05 82.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 100.58 29.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 397.38 199.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 311.62
Uncached Write 116.89 12.37 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 393.75 126.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1862.86 13.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 829.85 153.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
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omegasyn

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Patriks7 said:
So just cause one person has had a problem means all of them do?
Just some questions;
Did you get it through the upgrade from Apple?
Did you actually do real world tests or just benchmarks?
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Did you get it through the upgrade from Apple?

No, the drive purchased off ebay. I also don't believe apple uses samsungs but someone can correct me here.

Did you actually do real world tests or just benchmarks?

Yes, I ran benchmarks and real world tests with boot up, shut down, photoshop, updates installation, and etc....

The intel SSD beats the samsung HANDS DOWN but I am awaiting on my new vertex to see how things pane out.

Latest bench with intel 80gb ssd on mbp 17:
intelssd.png
 
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bbadalucco

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omegasyn said:
Did you get it through the upgrade from Apple?

No, the drive purchased off ebay. I also don't believe apple uses samsungs but someone can correct me here.

Did you actually do real world tests or just benchmarks?

Yes, I ran benchmarks and real world tests with boot up, shut down, photoshop, updates installation, and etc....

The intel SSD beats the samsung HANDS DOWN but I am awaiting on my new vertex to see how things pane out.

Latest bench with intel 80gb ssd on mbp 17:
intelssd.png
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How does this stack up against the Samsung SSD Benchmarks??? There is a thread showing the Samsung Benchmarks...but unfortunately I don't know enough about xbench to fully understand.
 
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spaceballl

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I believe that OCX is actually the exact same as the G. Skill Titan, just rebranded. Do some googling on this and I'm 90% sure this is true. So if you're going to get it, get the titan. But people have had issues w/ it so maybe avoide them both (i love my titan though :D)
 
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