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OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6g

I just installed my OWC 6G/s. It's blazing fast. I have the Momentus XT Hybrid installed in my optibay. Also have 8G Ram. The Hybrid feels like a turtle compared to the OWC.

If you're a student, you don't need a 6g SSD. The main reason people shouldn't be buying 6G SSD's just yet is that they're too expensive. Also, anticipate the usual problems with new products, with drivers, firmware, blah blah.

Save money and get a 3G SSD for your main drive, and then replace your optibay with a 7200 RPM HD for your personal data and media.
 
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Serious. If I'm not booting apps, it just turns on & is ready in under 15secs. No lies! I'm really surprised at how rapid it is. Blows the bollocks off my old Windoze machine.
 
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Serious. If I'm not booting apps, it just turns on & is ready in under 15secs. No lies! I'm really surprised at how rapid it is. Blows the bollocks off my old Windoze machine.
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So does my MBA.
 
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Lol...it just arrived in the post...oh well, rapid speeds here we go!
 
Owners of the 6Gs, any sleep or hibernation issues? (hopefully none)
 
Locodice said:
The irony is none of us shut down our laptops when we don't use them, we just put the lids down and let them sleep.
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Exactly, although I am more apt to do this on my desktop than the Macbook because of battery life.
 
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Forgive my ignorance but I'm used to closing things down for the night when I'm done. You telling me this is detrimental to battery life? How does the RAM cope if you never shut it down? I'm a Mac newb. Or rather, I'm coming back. Grass is greener...
 
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Forgive my ignorance but I'm used to closing things down for the night when I'm done. You telling me this is detrimental to battery life? How does the RAM cope if you never shut it down? I'm a Mac newb. Or rather, I'm coming back. Grass is greener...
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It is not so much hurting your battery, but needlessly restarting everything for no reason. Just start your Mac and launch whatever programs you need to use and leave them running. When not using it just sleep the machine or close the lid and leave it. OS X will manage memory for you and you don't need to think about it.

I never shutdown or restart unless a software update requires it.
 
LuckyLoki said:
I just installed my OWC 6G/s. It's blazing fast. I have the Momentus XT Hybrid installed in my optibay. Also have 8G Ram. The Hybrid feels like a turtle compared to the OWC.

If you're a student, you don't need a 6g SSD. The main reason people shouldn't be buying 6G SSD's just yet is that they're too expensive. Also, anticipate the usual problems with new products, with drivers, firmware, blah blah.

Save money and get a 3G SSD for your main drive, and then replace your optibay with a 7200 RPM HD for your personal data and media.
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How's the battery life compared to whatever you were running before?
 
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Serious. If I'm not booting apps, it just turns on & is ready in under 15secs. No lies! I'm really surprised at how rapid it is. Blows the bollocks off my old Windoze machine.
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Great. Must be the fastest 7200rpm hard drive in history. Take a video and show us.
 
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LuckyLoki said:
I just installed my OWC 6G/s. It's blazing fast. I have the Momentus XT Hybrid installed in my optibay. Also have 8G Ram. The Hybrid feels like a turtle compared to the OWC.

If you're a student, you don't need a 6g SSD. The main reason people shouldn't be buying 6G SSD's just yet is that they're too expensive. Also, anticipate the usual problems with new products, with drivers, firmware, blah blah.

Save money and get a 3G SSD for your main drive, and then replace your optibay with a 7200 RPM HD for your personal data and media.
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Yeah I'm a student! It's so hard to try to calm the spec beast. I'm thinking more Intel 320 now. 50 extra GBs for about 40 bucks less.
 
sydenham said:
Great. Must be the fastest 7200rpm hard drive in history. Take a video and show us.
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I'll take a video of it and upload my new 6G boot up too. Can't provide figures on read/writes until I'm more familiar with the hardware/software but no doubt others will enlighten as to those results.
 
I just finish installing a pro 6g in my macbook. This thing is super fast, but it's also my first ssd. I'm still taking 25sec to boot. any suggestions?
 
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LuckyLoki said:
If you're a student, you don't need a 6g SSD. The main reason people shouldn't be buying 6G SSD's just yet is that they're too expensive.
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And they also die quicker...



Locodice said:
The irony is none of us shut down our laptops when we don't use them, we just put the lids down and let them sleep.
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I never once thought of that but my God that is a good point LMAO!
 
Just to and my 2 cents here.

I'm coming to the belief that you are not going to be able to really tell the difference between any of the (decent) SSD's. I mean most people that is; 99% of the users. There's a huge difference going form rotational, but then they all seem the same. I use a number of these.

Can't tell the difference. (Oh, yes i can...if I bench them :D )

I'm talking about a LOT of these; Intel: X25's, 510,320; OZC: Vertex 1 2 & 3, Agility.....etc..)

I don't know...fast is fast.

I see boot times.....Maybe I should get a stopwatch? :rolleyes:
 
Speed is overemphasized so much that it is comical. Compare the load times of normal programs (Internet, Office, iPhoto, etc) and boot time of our original 64GB SSD MBA has compared to the fastest SandForce drives on the market... I have to imagine the reason for this is because the HDD is still the dominant storage medium, and subsequently, most programs are built around a theoretical speed that is far, far, far less than the slowest of all SSDs. For a few users, a faster drive may make a huge difference...but that is for a few select users...


mac jones said:
Just to and my 2 cents here.

I'm coming to the belief that you are not going to be able to really tell the difference between any of the (decent) SSD's. I mean most people that is; 99% of the users. There's a huge difference going form rotational, but then they all seem the same. I use a number of these.

Can't tell the difference. (Oh, yes i can...if I bench them :D )

I'm talking about a LOT of these; Intel: X25's, 510,320; OZC: Vertex 1 2 & 3, Agility.....etc..)

I don't know...fast is fast.

I see boot times.....Maybe I should get a stopwatch? :rolleyes:
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NickZac said:
Speed is overemphasized so much that it is comical. Compare the load times of normal programs (Internet, Office, iPhoto, etc) and boot time of our original 64GB SSD MBA has compared to the fastest SandForce drives on the market... I have to imagine the reason for this is because the HDD is still the dominant storage medium, and subsequently, most programs are built around a theoretical speed that is far, far, far less than the slowest of all SSDs. For a few users, a faster drive may make a huge difference...but that is for a few select users...
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Yet, truth be told, Im no better than the rest. I worship the benches and i'll buy the latest thing (which probably includes one of these....oops ) :D

I'm just leery of OCZ. They are not trust worthy. It will take some time for them to re-establish trust.
 
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No lol!

I brought my MBP in for the upgrades I'd purchased, OWC 120GB SSD, optibay conversion & 500GB in there & 8GB 1333Mhz) only to find that 1067Mhz RAM had been installed!

They claimed it was an error within sales.

The newer RAM is in the post.

Not happy.
 
Those that buy a SSD for quick boots (regardless if it is system or Application boot) have too much money.
It is nice to have a quick boot when you use bootcamp and want to run a game or whatever in Windows. I see myself do that rarely and it wouldn't be reason enough.

The reason I wanted one is that I sometimes run into the situation where I have something with heavy disk access running and everything else that requires just a few disk access crawls to a halt (or close to it). The whole VM business I imagine to be a lot faster too. The SSD is just a multitasking capable harddrive. What is the use of a dual core if the disk access always slows one down in heavy multitasking.

I ordered a Vertex 2 because they are currently very cheap in Europe probably because of the 25nm stuff and I still have only SATA 2. I read the whole 25nm issue on thg and that is enough speed for me.
 
dusk007 said:
Those that buy a SSD for quick boots (regardless if it is system or Application boot) have too much money.
It is nice to have a quick boot when you use bootcamp and want to run a game or whatever in Windows. I see myself do that rarely and it wouldn't be reason enough.

The reason I wanted one is that I sometimes run into the situation where I have something with heavy disk access running and everything else that requires just a few disk access crawls to a halt (or close to it). The whole VM business I imagine to be a lot faster too. The SSD is just a multitasking capable harddrive. What is the use of a dual core if the disk access always slows one down in heavy multitasking.

I ordered a Vertex 2 because they are currently very cheap in Europe probably because of the 25nm stuff and I still have only SATA 2. I read the whole 25nm issue on thg and that is enough speed for me.
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sorry bro - it's a little like russian roulette with what vertex 2 ssd you get - in terms of die density and performance - you will need to run a program to ascertain if you got the original stock of 25nm NAND flas drives that had crippled performance as they utilized 1/2 the number of channels, with 64gb double density die size - i would check over at ocz forums for the link for that problem... unless you went for the 240gb - which due to the config of the NAND flash - all the channels were used up and performance was not affected

why didnt you got for the vertex 3
 
OWC 6G performs very similar as Vertex 3. (see Storagereview)

I hope OWC is more reliable because OCZ Vertex 2 was a mess. (200 failures in 1200 Newegg reviews)

If you're worried about power consumption do not get the new Sandforce drives. Better look at Intel 510 or Crucial M4.
 
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