Thinking about buying an OCZ 60GB SSD for my MBP. Is it worth it?

[ozziegn]

I'm thinking about buying this OCZ 60GB SSD drive for my unibody MBP and I'm wondering if the benefit would be worth the expense?

my MBP (with a 2.8 chip) boots up in about 40 seconds and I'm wondering if I would see a noticeable gain?

please give me your .02 cents......

 

[Aea]

It uses a JMicron controller with an woefully undersized cache meaning you get stutter. So no, it's not worth it. At least in my opinion.

 

[isaki87]

I'm thinking about buying this OCZ 60GB SSD drive for my unibody MBP and I'm wondering if the benefit would be worth the expense?

my MBP (with a 2.8 chip) boots up in about 40 seconds and I'm wondering if I would see a noticeable gain?

please give me your .02 cents......

No, because there are better drives out there.

 

[tubbymac]

JunkMicron controller. 'Nuff said.

Hold out if you can until Wednesday. Supposedly that's when Anandtech's massive review of all current and upcoming SSD drives is going to be published.

 

[be300test]

you wont see any stutter in osx, at least i dident on the ocz's i tried. but in windows i had serious stuttering issues.

the ocz solid is the cheaper one, i found it to be fast for osx and cheap.

i would recommend it if you dont want to spend alot of money. just be prepared to buy a new one in less than a year.

 

[sascha h-k]

by ssd's only WITH cache, forget all others.

only OCZ Vertex has cache ..

Available in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, 250GB capacities*
Read: up to 200 MB/sec**
Write: up to 160 MB/sec**
Seek Time: <.1ms
Onboard Cache:
(30-60GB) - 32MB
(120-250GB) - 64MB

 

[be300test]

by ssd's only WITH cache, forget all others.

only OCZ Vertex has cache ..

Available in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, 250GB capacities*
Read: up to 200 MB/sec**
Write: up to 160 MB/sec**
Seek Time: <.1ms
Onboard Cache:
(30-60GB) - 32MB
(120-250GB) - 64MB

the vertex has a diffrent controller than the jmicron, cache doesent make much of a difference when you have a crappy controller.