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This Got My First Macbook Pro 2.8GHz with the 128 SSD
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WOW... wonderful figures
I was totally surprised looking at the figures of the SSD. I dont know if anyone has done some reading on them but, the most important part is the 4K random writes. As we can see they are pretty good figures, comparable to that of any contemporary drive. This is the part where most of the other drives fail in the worst possible way. This is the conclusion that was drawn by anandtech's review. He attributes the slow performance of other cheaper drives by OCZ and others to the jmicron controllers on board. Almost all of them use this damned controller and hence the freezing while using the drive. This freezing happens when windows writes a log file or in the case of a mac, using an IM service as the most general example. But apart from that the write part, where an SSD really shines out is the random and sequential reads which are totally off the charts. Insane bootup times of under 30 seconds and ultra fast application load times are all thanks to this feature of a SSD. Some people say SSD's are still nascent, but damn if those figures are correct, I would definitely go head-on with the SSD revolution.
As an after thought, I believe the samsung drive we are seeing is an SLC cos samsungs MLC's have not seen scores like that. Apple ROCKS!!! getting another MBP with the SSD.
Edit: The Samsung drive is an MLC based drive.. there are currently no SLC drives that are 128 GB.
I was totally surprised looking at the figures of the SSD. I dont know if anyone has done some reading on them but, the most important part is the 4K random writes. As we can see they are pretty good figures, comparable to that of any contemporary drive. This is the part where most of the other drives fail in the worst possible way. This is the conclusion that was drawn by anandtech's review. He attributes the slow performance of other cheaper drives by OCZ and others to the jmicron controllers on board. Almost all of them use this damned controller and hence the freezing while using the drive. This freezing happens when windows writes a log file or in the case of a mac, using an IM service as the most general example. But apart from that the write part, where an SSD really shines out is the random and sequential reads which are totally off the charts. Insane bootup times of under 30 seconds and ultra fast application load times are all thanks to this feature of a SSD. Some people say SSD's are still nascent, but damn if those figures are correct, I would definitely go head-on with the SSD revolution.
As an after thought, I believe the samsung drive we are seeing is an SLC cos samsungs MLC's have not seen scores like that. Apple ROCKS!!! getting another MBP with the SSD.
Edit: The Samsung drive is an MLC based drive.. there are currently no SLC drives that are 128 GB.
I believe the MBA SSD is on a PATA interface, or uses a PATA -> SATA interface adapter. Intel are switching their SSD's to full SATA, and if other manufacturers are doing the same, and have done so for the new MBP's, it's likely the MBP SSD's will be much faster than the MBA ones.
Swap HDD for SSD?
Anyone know if the standard HDD can be swapped out later on for the SSD? Mine's still on the way (ordered on the 15th, and still no ship date
), so I don't want to wait for another one. Actually the standard drive will be just fine, but it will be nice to know whether or not it's an option later on. THX
Anyone know if the standard HDD can be swapped out later on for the SSD? Mine's still on the way (ordered on the 15th, and still no ship date
), so I don't want to wait for another one. Actually the standard drive will be just fine, but it will be nice to know whether or not it's an option later on. THXAnyone know if the standard HDD can be swapped out later on for the SSD? Mine's still on the way (ordered on the 15th, and still no ship date
Yup, you sure can, they actually made it easier to change out the HD on this new mbp then the previous models.
Sweet.... first things first tho'... I need to get this new one. Not so happy that delivery has taken so long. The order went in at 7:30 AM the day after the keynote, so I thought it would get here sooner. This old 1 GHZ PB is on its last legs...