Top HDDs & SSDs benchmarked in 15" MacBook Pro; who wants the review?

[Philflow]

Cause I don't want to pay money to find out answers I probably already know??

Actually I don't think you already know all the answers. What you are saying holds true for a Windows laptop but on the MBP things looked different.

And he's not asking you to pay, he's asking for a website to pay. Not a strange idea of course because the article will drive traffic.

I once put a simple notebook review on a webpage with Google ads and made $120. Not that much, but I think DaMarcus isn't asking for much more.

Barefeats is a good site to contact

That's a good idea.

 

[Tmacfan4321]

i 2nd this. I dont car about a small WD drive. I dont care about some old SSD. I want sandforce etc with drives that offer garbage collection for Mac OSX users. sorry bro

You do realize that the Agility 2 and the Vertex LE are both SandForce drives, right?

 

[apolloa]

You do realize that the Agility 2 and the Vertex LE are both SandForce drives, right?

So any of the new high end OCZ drives offer built in garbage collection and trimming that works on OSX?

 

[Inside_line]

All this talk of not the same on windows vs mac is unsubstantiated without data. Does the review look at the drives on both systems? OSX vs. Bootcamp vs. PC? Because without an apples to apples comparison your claim is accepted on faith alone?

 

[dr. shdw]

So any of the new high end OCZ drives offer built in garbage collection and trimming that works on OSX?

The SF drives have their own type of GC.

http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=146&parentId=3&top=1

 

[dr. shdw]

Actually I don't think you already know all the answers. What you are saying holds true for a Windows laptop but on the MBP things looked different.

And he's not asking you to pay, he's asking for a website to pay. Not a strange idea of course because the article will drive traffic.

I once put a simple notebook review on a webpage with Google ads and made $120. Not that much, but I think DaMarcus isn't asking for much more.



That's a good idea.

I'm still fairly sure the rankings match up, unless there is something severely wrong with his system.

Just read a combination of the following and make your own decision rather than waiting on DaMarcus to sell it to a website since it may never happen..

http://barefeats.com/mbpp19.html
http://barefeats.com/hard134.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3756/2010-value-ssd-100-roundup-kingston-and-ocz-take-on-intel
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3690/...dforce-more-capacity-at-no-performance-loss/5
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3681/oczs-vertex-2-special-sauce-sf1200-reviewed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300/8
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd/2

 

[Tmacfan4321]

So any of the new high end OCZ drives offer built in garbage collection and trimming that works on OSX?

All sandforce drives have built in garbage collection. Controllers are what you want to look for, not brands.

 

[magamo]

I once put a simple notebook review on a webpage with Google ads and made $120. Not that much, but I think DaMarcus isn't asking for much more.

Then why don't you put his HDD/SSD review on your website with Google ads? That way he gets enough money, and you get traffic as long as his review is of value.

 

[Philflow]

I'm still fairly sure the rankings match up, unless there is something severely wrong with his system.

Just read a combination of the following and make your own decision rather than waiting on DaMarcus to sell it to a website since it may never happen..

http://barefeats.com/mbpp19.html
http://barefeats.com/hard134.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3756/2010-value-ssd-100-roundup-kingston-and-ocz-take-on-intel
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3690/...dforce-more-capacity-at-no-performance-loss/5
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3681/oczs-vertex-2-special-sauce-sf1200-reviewed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300/8
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-review-finally-a-good-hybrid-hdd/2

I am aware of all those reviews

Unfortunately synthetic benchmarks or benchmarks run on a Windows desktop with Marvell SATA 6G controller have very little to do with real world performance on a Macbook Pro with Nvidia 3Gbps controller.

 

[dr. shdw]

I am aware of all those reviews

Unfortunately synthetic benchmarks or benchmarks run on a Windows desktop with Marvell SATA 6G controller have very little to do with real world performance on a Macbook Pro with Nvidia 3Gbps controller.

Like I said, if anything it's slower..so unless that review proves otherwise

 

[DaMarcus]

Since we don't know your experience, qualifications, method of testing etc, maybe you can post the review and then ask people to donate a few dollars to you via PayPal if they deem your effort/time worth it. This way, you will get some experience as a reviewer/technical writer, which may lead to further paid reviews from other technical review sites (maybe you can be their Mac tester or something).

Okay, let me propose myself. I'm one of the reviewers from the biggest techsite from the Netherlands which has 66 million pageviews per month. Therefor I'm writing always the Notebook Best Buy Guides which has ~ 250.000 pageviews each time.

So, only a reviewer? No, also a moderator of the notebookdivision from that same community. And I've reviewed several things for manufacturers. Example: I've tested the MSI GT735 before it hit the market. So MSI could anticipate on my feedback and improve their notebooks.

Buy is it not a possibility to publish these results on that techsite? Could be but I prefer to publish these results on a international website.

Then why don't you put his HDD/SSD review on your website with Google ads? That way he gets enough money, and you get traffic as long as his review is of value.

If no one bites I will.

 

[Philflow]

Like I said, if anything it's slower..so unless that review proves otherwise

Different ranking too. I've seen the results. But enough speculation for now, let's focus on what he asked. Where can he publish it.

 

[peapody]

Different ranking too. I've seen the results. But enough speculation for now, let's focus on what he asked. Where can he publish it.

Here, as a favor to the macrumors community.

Some people do giveaways (imaketouchtheme), others do reviews (like schneiderman)..just to give back to the community. But do what you want...personally I won't be interested in the results. That's just me though.

 

[dr. shdw]

Different ranking too. I've seen the results. But enough speculation for now, let's focus on what he asked. Where can he publish it.

Sure, but the rankings won't be off by much. No doubt the SSDs are leading with the hybrid in the middle and the regular HDDs in the back.

 

[blairbeckwith]

Who knows a website that would be interested in publishing this review for a small fee?

I'll give you $0.04, roughly double the value of your opinion.

 

[Philflow]

Sure, but the rankings won't be off by much. No doubt the SSDs are leading with the hybrid in the middle and the regular HDDs in the back.

Keep guessing, maybe one day he will tell you

 

[blairbeckwith]

Keep guessing, maybe one day he will tell you

This isn't a matter of guessing, it's common sense.

 

[Philflow]

never mind. no spoilers

 

[dr. shdw]

never mind. no spoilers

It doesn't really matter since it's impossible the HDD/Hybrids are out front and the SSDs are out back, unless the tests are flawed.

 

[Philflow]

haha keep trying. Some of the results were quite unexpected for me, and they would be for anyone using common sense.

 

[dr. shdw]

haha keep trying. Some of the results were quite unexpected for me, and they would be for anyone using common sense.

I'm not trying, I don't really care about the results..

 

[apolloa]

The SF drives have their own type of GC.

http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=146&parentId=3&top=1

But they work in OSX? I am asking as I see these drives come in the storage sizes I want. Intel do not. I'm not getting one until next year after my warranty has run out, just in case.. So I'm interested to see big size SSD's coming to market.

 

[blairbeckwith]

haha keep trying. Some of the results were quite unexpected for me, and they would be for anyone using common sense.

If the results were unexpected, then your testing methodology and/or equipment is flawed.

Stop trying to get your garbase, piece of **** study to sell by making outrageous claims. If there was any demand for your study, you wouldn't be posting on a forum trying to sell it.

Why don't you make a study that proves that images are sharper on lower resolution displays? I bet if anyone can, you and your butt-buddy here could pull it off.

 

[magamo]

I don't know how copyright works, but if you think it's of interest to many and is publishable in the biggest tech website in Netherland, can't you just publish it there and see if major English websites or magazines are interested in publishing a translation? I guess it might be easier for them to believe your review and test results that way. It seems to me you're trying to sell test results reported by a random guy on the internet.

By the way, I wonder why you don't know an appropriate place to publish when your review is very technical. Whatever field it is in, the author of an technical article must be an expert who is in the know. I'm not saying I doubt the credibility of your review or anything, but it doesn't sound like you read tech articles very much...

 

[dr. shdw]

But they work in OSX? I am asking as I see these drives come in the storage sizes I want. Intel do not. I'm not getting one until next year after my warranty has run out, just in case.. So I'm interested to see big size SSD's coming to market.

It does it on a hardware level, just like GC and unlike TRIM so it works fine in OSX. Also the warranty isn't voided..