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Who's running an OCZ SSD in their MacBook?
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It seems Ol!ver and I are on the same quest! Any SSD success stories would be greatly appreciated 
Are you having any problems like slow unzipping/installing? There's a lot of conflicting reports around the internet.
Some are saying that the OCZ Core SSDs work great with none-intel chipsets.
Flash technology in general does not handle small files well, which can explain the performance disparity between different scenarios.
So no problems with the stalling?
Just ordered the 60GB model - should be here tomorrow.
No stalling. Laptop feels much faster with OCZ Core. Of course, with small writes it can be slow. But how often does that happen with typical usage?
To be honest I don't know how often small writes happen, I suppose if it feels faster then that's the whole point.
I've got 7 days to return it anway, so we'll see how I get on tomorrow !
To be honest I don't know how often small writes happen, I suppose if it feels faster then that's the whole point.
I've got 7 days to return it anway, so we'll see how I get on tomorrow !
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Videos and feedback much appreciated on this model! How much did you pay?
I paid £170 for it. I really wanted the Intel but I wasn't going to pay over £500 !
I'll be putting photos and possibly a video or two on my blog tomorrow, linkage in my sig !
I'll report here too obviously.
Are you too busy launching all your apps in 2 seconds to post an update?!!
Just installing everything and getting it back to how I like it
Just installing everything and getting it back to how I like it
Soooo how's it working out?
So far so good.
Videos of old and new boot times here: http://uk.youtube.com/user/ojhaslam
Only slowness I've noticed was downloading my notebooks from Evernote. I would assume that's their servers though and not the SSD....
No bad, boot time decreased from ~40s (w/ HDD) to ~30s (w/ SSD). This is similar to most others based on what I read in this forum.
By the way, for those that are thinking about buying a OCZ SSD, OCZ now offers a new line on SSD (solid series), which is supposed to be 2/3 the price of the existing core series. It should be available in some retailers already for pre-order.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_solid_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd
Here's the update I promised everyone :
http://www.the-iblog.com/2008/11/11/who-needs-to-spend-500-on-an-ssd/
Basically, I love it
http://www.the-iblog.com/2008/11/11/who-needs-to-spend-500-on-an-ssd/
Basically, I love it
Here's the update I promised everyone :
http://www.the-iblog.com/2008/11/11/who-needs-to-spend-500-on-an-ssd/
Basically, I love it
Any chance of some app loading videos? Particularly Mail would be really useful to me. Gotta assume you've had no slowdowns yet? Do you have Vista installed on this laptop also?
No slowdowns no, seems fine so far though it's obviously early days. Anything I can do to test that ?
So just a little update after a day's use.
The thing still feels nice and fast, and I've been throwing lots at it to try and trip it up, so far so good. I've got Adium open to keep something writing to disc, along with a HD video downloading, and another playing. All good.
I've also run Xbench, and the only result that's a bit low is the Random uncached write of 4k blocks. It's hitting at about 2mb/s which seems to be better than normal hard drives but not quite as good as the SSD results I've found online. Having said that it's much faster at other things than some SSDs too, so I'm quite happy.
The thing still feels nice and fast, and I've been throwing lots at it to try and trip it up, so far so good. I've got Adium open to keep something writing to disc, along with a HD video downloading, and another playing. All good.
I've also run Xbench, and the only result that's a bit low is the Random uncached write of 4k blocks. It's hitting at about 2mb/s which seems to be better than normal hard drives but not quite as good as the SSD results I've found online. Having said that it's much faster at other things than some SSDs too, so I'm quite happy.
Very common. In fact, that's probably the most common type of disk activity on modern OSs.
price
$180 (US) on ebay, new, for the 64 gb version (the 128GB is about $400). Works flawlessly, and the machine (2.0 alu macbook) doesn't vibrate any more. This was my main reason for getting it.
$180 (US) on ebay, new, for the 64 gb version (the 128GB is about $400). Works flawlessly, and the machine (2.0 alu macbook) doesn't vibrate any more. This was my main reason for getting it.