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To SSD Or Not....

2contagious said:
Are they really that reliable? (more reliable than other SSDs?)
Are there any comparisons between the SSDs Apple provides in their MBPs and the high-end SSDs that are out there? How much faster will Apple's SSDs be compared to Apple's HDDs and how much slower will Apple's SSDs be compared to 3rd party SSDs?

Also, as soon as anyone owns a new i5 or i7 MBP with Apple SSD, could you please post info on whether the new MBPs are using the same SSDs as before? :)
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I ordered a BTO today (i7 2.66, 8gb RAM) with 128gb SSD. Shipping is 2-4 days. I just figured this would hold me over for about 6-9 months, and then bigger drives will be available for cheaper, and I can switch out this one later. Also, I think it's silly to order a drive that you're not going to use. Might as well get some use out of the ONE drive I ordered.

Hoping I made the right decision!
 
If anyone can answer a few newbie questions, you'd be a hero for a day:

1) Are there any external SSD drives?
2) If you have a SSD can you use an external HDD too?
3) How difficult/risky is it to put a SSD in yourself?

<3
 
In general I'd go with the 7200rpm HDD. SSD is just not quite there yet. The price point is staggeringly high for what you are getting, and with the current trend of pricing, we should see SSDs come down in price fairly quickly.


thewizzy said:
If anyone can answer a few newbie questions, you'd be a hero for a day:

1) Are there any external SSD drives?
2) If you have a SSD can you use an external HDD too?
3) How difficult/risky is it to put a SSD in yourself?

<3
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1. http://tinyurl.com/y7fozqk
2. Yes, assuming you've formatted it appropriately
3. There are always risks with opening your enclosure. It voids your warranty. But if you are patient, can hold a screwdriver, and can follow instructions you can do this yourself fairly easily. See: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...nibody-Mid-2009-Hard-Drive-Replacement/1715/1
 
stefan15 said:
3. There are always risks with opening your enclosure. It voids your warranty. But if you are patient, can hold a screwdriver, and can follow instructions you can do this yourself fairly easily. See: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...nibody-Mid-2009-Hard-Drive-Replacement/1715/1
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This is incorrect. Changing your hard drive (or RAM for that matter) will not void your warranty. They are classed as user replaceable parts and will NOT void your warranty. There are even instructions in the manual.
 
hyperpiper45 said:
This is incorrect. Changing your hard drive (or RAM for that matter) will not void your warranty. They are classed as user replaceable parts and will NOT void your warranty. There are even instructions in the manual.
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Nice.. didn't realize this. I thought switching from the shipped HDD to a third party SSD would void it.
 
well your warranty will not cover the 3rd party SSD, but the rest of your computer is still covered.
 
The 3rd party SSD should have its own warranty though.

For SSD info. Which is the best. Check Anandtech. He is about to test a new SSD with SF-1200 Controller which might be interesting as it is supposed to be a lot cheaper than SF-1500 Controller drives.
Crucial C300 and SF-1500 drives are in general the fastest out there yet. Intel is behind especially on Win7 with aligned writes. Don't know about OSX. Intel is still recommended because nothing is known about reliability of the newer Sandforce or Micron controllers.
 
If you want SSD, I wouldn't buy it through apple. I'd do it myself.

I'm probably going to upgrade my harddrive to SSD in a year or 2.
 
i got the 500gb 7200rpm drive .. should have bought an ssd for it instead but i think i might pick up a 160gb intel .. or maybe the corsair 256
 
I just bought a MacBook Pro without the SSD option after reading this. Now I want to buy a SSD, maybe a 160GB. Is the Intel 160GB X25M a good option? Are there certain SSDs that are work better with mac?
 
^^^^^
There are none that work better with MBP's. Some put Mac stickers on them, but they're still the same drives.
 
gecko91 said:
I just bought a MacBook Pro without the SSD option after reading this. Now I want to buy a SSD, maybe a 160GB. Is the Intel 160GB X25M a good option? Are there certain SSDs that are work better with mac?
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Lots of happy intel SSD owners on this board (including myself; i've got two.) Highly recommend them!
 
I'm either going to buy the 160 Gb Intel SSD now. Or wait till the prices drop.
 
How often does Intel update the SSDs? Would it be better to wait for the price to drop a little? Or how long of a wait would that be?
 
I have an opti-bay with 2x160GB 1.8" Intel X18G2's in Raid0 - here's the Crystaldiskmark benchmark i'm getting:

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Sequential Read : 469.045 MB/s
Sequential Write : 155.626 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 253.068 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 133.743 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 10.294 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 55.438 MB/s
Test Size : 100 MB
 
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