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Oem 256ssd or owc 240 3G
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Where did you find the Samsung ssd? On ebay or something?
The OWC comes with a screw driver to open the air. It also comes with a phone number if you get stuck.
from my experience with the first SSDs that OWC released with the sand force chips in them reliability was horrible. I know these are not the same chipset and not the same form factor but it makes me very suspicious since I had one fail at one week and one fail at one month before I demanded my money back. By fail I mean the computer froze and on reboot the drive was no longer recognized to boot from and not detected by disc utility.
Yes I would like to know as well! Right now I have the 128gb SSD and may eventually upgrade. The only place I know to buy any replacement SSD's is from OWC.
I have installed over 30 Owc units of various sizing, to 2010 Refurbs for friends, never had a unit with a single problem
Forums users have found Samsung drives to be among the most compatible and reliable SSDs out there. There is no reason to pay more for a smaller capacity OWC drive.
The raw capacity is 256GB but some space is allocated for over-provisioning. Other drives have this too, but the OEMs have chosen to report the raw capacity instead of usable capacity.