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Benchmark?

Was the actual experience faster? As those old IDE SSDs were not fast in read/write I/O and transfer, the big advantage is access time i.e. 0.4 ms compare to 13 ms...
 
You my troll, should READ what you quote, BEFORE you quote it, I highly recommend it to you. If you don't understand what you've read - read once more. It helps slow people to understand even simple sentences. This way you can avoid being ridiculous in the future...

He gets your point, he is simply addressing the fact that you implied that installing an SSD in a Powerbook is a waste of time.
 
He gets your point, he is simply addressing the fact that you implied that installing an SSD in a Powerbook is a waste of time.

Did you read my whole post? I don't think so (see last paragraph for instance)... He also didn't and reacted like regular ***hole. Are words he used polite and kind? Am I insulting somebody with my POV?

My whole post was intended to show "why actually SSD is worth to install in PB". That's why I've pointed SSD advantages over HDD. Especially for PB usage. goMac stated something different. This is what I disputed with.
OMG, it's that hard to understand???
 
Hi, any news on this topic? How were the new speed results with the new jumper settings?

Let me know, because I am having the same problem.

I put a 64GB SSD in a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz and it took it 1:20 to startup up from scratch on the SSD and 50 seconds on a 5400RPM 160GB drive.

(I cloned the drive from the HDD to the SSD).
 
Hello mate
I just took it out, returned it and got a conventional drive instead.
It's much smoother now :)
 
not all SSD are faster then a HDD only because you name that thing SSD , especially P-ATA SSD are usually not even close or just on par with HDD (see some early netbooks with SSD), they had often been even far slower then HDD , and reinstalling does not make those faster, and the real fast SSD's are quiet expensive

This

Hi, and thanks for all of your help.
I tried a clean install, and it was still slow.
I ran XBench, and these are the Disk results:

............................... HD............SSD
Sequential:
Uncached Write:........43.01.........18.62
Uncached Write:........42.31.........14.30
Uncached Read:........82.78..........6.67
Uncached Read:........47.54.........31.48
Random:
Uncached Write:.........6.26...........0.63
Uncached Write:........38.91..........9.56
Uncached Read:.........55.21..........2.16
Uncached Read:.........69.15........32.68

As you can see, the SSD fails at all stages compared to the stock Toshiba 4200rpm drive which is from 2004.

As I said, this is after a clean OSX (Erased the disk) install.

If anyone can point something out to me that Im missing, please let me know. Otherwise, I am returning the SSD straight away and getting a 5200rpm IDE drive.

drzygote

You're missing a good SSD

Hi, any news on this topic? How were the new speed results with the new jumper settings?

Let me know, because I am having the same problem.

I put a 64GB SSD in a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz and it took it 1:20 to startup up from scratch on the SSD and 50 seconds on a 5400RPM 160GB drive.

(I cloned the drive from the HDD to the SSD).

Which SSD?

Hello mate
I just took it out, returned it and got a conventional drive instead.
It's much smoother now :)

a http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Legacy_Pro would've been much better, but looking at the price i think i'd rather get a new macbook air or something :S
 
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