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This article: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16979 suggests the Vertex (with Indilinx controller) has a big slowdown problem in use, compared to initial speed, of about 50% (though firmware updates might solve that?). The Summit, at a similar price, uses a Samsung controller (without firmware updates), with half the degradation. The Intel is best, but very expensive too.
If you buy a UMBP with harddisk, is it possible to replace the HHD by a SSD yourself ?? Is the controler and the SSD one unit??
OCZ Vertex rocks!
I've been testing OCZ Vertex 120G and 250G SSDs on our Macs. Inside the Unibody MacBook Pro 'late 2008,' I'm getting good speeds.
DiskTester Random 4K test measures transactions per second
= 4414T/s READ, 3912T/s WRITE
QuickBench Small Random Transfers (4K - 1M, 5 iterations)
= 101MB/s READ, 96MB/s WRITE average
QuickBench Custom Large Sustained Transfers (1GB, 5 iterations)
= 266MB/s READ, 209MB/s WRITE average
That last number (sustained writes) is twice as fast as we measured on the Intel X25-M. I'm currently booting OS X Leopard from the 250G OCZ. I installed Vista Ultimate in a Boot Camp partition. So far no problems.
Several Bare Feats readers wrote me there was forum chatter on wake from sleep problems and Boot Camp issues. Have any of you experienced problems?
I've been testing OCZ Vertex 120G and 250G SSDs on our Macs. Inside the Unibody MacBook Pro 'late 2008,' I'm getting good speeds.
DiskTester Random 4K test measures transactions per second
= 4414T/s READ, 3912T/s WRITE
QuickBench Small Random Transfers (4K - 1M, 5 iterations)
= 101MB/s READ, 96MB/s WRITE average
QuickBench Custom Large Sustained Transfers (1GB, 5 iterations)
= 266MB/s READ, 209MB/s WRITE average
That last number (sustained writes) is twice as fast as we measured on the Intel X25-M. I'm currently booting OS X Leopard from the 250G OCZ. I installed Vista Ultimate in a Boot Camp partition. So far no problems.
Several Bare Feats readers wrote me there was forum chatter on wake from sleep problems and Boot Camp issues. Have any of you experienced problems?
Yes, you can change the HD to SSD yourself, the controller is not part of the HD, they are separate.
I read somewhere the latest firmware fixes this sleep problem. Did you flash your Vertex drives to the latest firmware or did it came with the latest?
People can check the OCZ forum for more details too.
People with new MacBook pros should see this thread so they can make better informed decisions honestly.
I soon will, I ordered the 256 G.Skill Falcon.
I am going to be installing it when it arrives probably Saturday.
I will keep everyone posted.
That is a myth. Even the OCZ forum moderators admitted that it is just a marketing ploy.
Cool, I think I saw your post on the g.skill forums too
Yeah trying to sort out the whole update firmware stuff since I do not want to go through the whole RMA if its jacked process
I somehow suspected that. Although I tend give the benefit of doubt, quite a lot as you can see.
Hi, I will buy a mbp very soon and I would to know if is a good idea buy it with an ssd ??? I particularly interested in performane, both read and write. Someone knows which drive ssd use apple both 128gb and 256gb? I have read samsung's drive for 128gb and toshiba's drive for 256gb but I don't know which model exactly. All opinion on that is important for me, thanks to all.
Great thread and chart. Don't want to nit-pick, but having just ordered the "Mac Edition' (exact same price so why not) 30GB Vertex from Newegg, I notice that the graph has it as 32GB, 64GB etc, but that's inconsistent with what I've observed on Newegg's site. Is that like 32GB if you want to format it full size and 30GB advertised size? Will slightly impact the $/GB and others might wonder, as I did, whether we're talking about the same drives.
Optibay adapter ($75 shipped from eBay - make an offer!) has enabled me to get into the SSD game on the cheap (via the 30GB Drive) since I can still use the stock drive for media storage. Still planning to get an 80GB Intel for my Mac Pro tower before too long.
Optibay adapter ($75 shipped from eBay - make an offer!) has enabled me to get into the SSD game on the cheap (via the 30GB Drive) since I can still use the stock drive for media storage. Still planning to get an 80GB Intel for my Mac Pro tower before too long.
Could have saved yourself $30 and got this instead:
http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=220
More info and pics here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/680228/
The only way for that to happen is to PM the mods alot about it. Show how useful this thread is.