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dhtmlkitchen

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Dec 23, 2010
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I'm building a DAW based on a MBP.

The internal drive is slow and mostly cluttered (nearly 60%, or 200gb full), I need more and faster drive space.

Feasible options:

SDXC slot - the largest I could find holds 128 GB which might not be enough.

SSD - replace the internal 5400 drive and transfer only the needed items.

Now with SSD, I've read up on some threads here that the Apple SSD doesn't hang while other SSD does. I also read that OCZ Vertex is very unreliable.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...TcWmJObOiAKu4JD5Ag&ved=0CDYQ9AIwAg&os=reviews

Cons: Failed after 15 months.
and
Cons: Reliability. Just a month after buying my 250 GB Vertex it failed.
and
After about three days, one failed
and
while it ran (which it did for about a day), the drive was not much faster...
and
Cons: The first drive lasted 6 days then died without warning.

And so on and so forth. I think you get the picture.

I'm was interested but after reading these reviews, I'm not so confident. Does this apply only to the 250GB version? If so, I could get a 128gb OCZ and a 128GB SDXC. Is there another SSD drive worth considering for MBP?

What's a good solution for me? (good = cheap, fast, reliable).
 
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