*blush*, but I'm not German (and I'm not a native English speaker either). I just watched a lot of Cartoon Network when I was a kid.
That is the funniest statement I've read today! You must be pretty new to computer hardware and technical support departments.
Mark
I know you like your OCZ SSD but I don't need funny words to go nuts over it. Like I said, true or not, he was replying to many people on Macs having serious speed problems on the Vertex LE drives. What he says doesn't change the fact that people actually are having problems. That's all I care about. Also, the V LE doesn't have Garbage Collection and OCZ doesn't mention this on their PDF brochure.
No I'm not new to computers, I'm old enough to be your father when it comes to hardware. But there's no company to my knowledge that would publicly tell 'lies' about their own products to make them sell less. The very notion itself is really idiotic.
One more time. I'm not saying OCZ drives are bad. I've never tried them so I'm no one to judge. However, given these facts, I'd rather spend my hard earned money on something that's proven and widely used as a reference. We're not talking about buying match-sticks or bubble-gum. Its the same thing what Anand has to say as well. Is Anand "flat out wrong" too ?
Again, believe what you want to believe. I've spent enough time in the OCZ forums to know that their technical support folks don't know the answer to every question and frequently post inaccurate information. And believing "the collective" is even more ridiculous. If you believed "the collective" here in this forum, you wouldn't buy a MacBook Pro because the screen would be so yellow it would look like urine.
When I got my Vertex last year, according to "the collective" over on OCZ forum, I would have sleep issues galore and it would crash frequently. A year later, nothing could be farther from the truth. ZERO sleep issues and only a single hiccup that was under the original firmware and was cured with a firmware update. Yet, there are still idiots out there running the 1-year old firmware going around spewing how they have nothing but problems.
The Intel is not a bad choice. But your reason for switching is based upon a comment by an OCZ rep that led you to believe you'd never achieve 250MB/s performance in your new MacBook Pro. THAT IS WRONG!
Mark
Now you're starting to sound downright silly ! So there's no need for forums ? No need for people posting their experiences, problems or complaints ? Customers who are sharing their issues know nothing ? Everyone is lying ? Everyone is flat out wrong ? Its just a big conspiracy right ? Just because you own an OCZ SSD yourself ? That's the most narrow-minded crap I've heard in a long time. You're in denial. You just won't let it be that something you own can give trouble to other people.
What about the C300? Is it still having firmware problems like I've found on the forums?
To my knowledge, the Crucial C300 uses a Marvell controller.It uses the SandForce controller too.What about the C300? Is it still having firmware problems like I've found on the forums?
He's not as there are a lot of people backing up the numbers they have. I think there might be some differences in benchmarking the ssd. The Sandforce controller is not so easy to benchmark due to the way it works. The Sandforce controller depends heavily on data compression unlike other ssd's.
Yes and they can get it wrong as well. Using benchmarks is one thing but they are only really useful when you do them all on the same system to make sure there aren't any other things that could influence the benchmark. Letting users benchmark their own machines and turning those results in a graph makes the graph completely useless. I wouldn't trust results just because someone has some reputation, I'd still look at what they are and what they are trying to say. I like to do my own thinking and so should a lot of other people. Check out different reviews and bechmarks and try to interpret what they're about and what they're trying to say. Don't solely rely on one person like OCZ, Barefeats, some guy on some forum or whoever/whatever.
But not in every other MacBook Pro. There are quite a lot of people who are benchmarking on old MBP's, not the new ones. The topic on the OCZ forum started on 19-1-2010, way before the introduction of the new MBP's! There have also been quite some problems regarding sata in MBP's, Apple even pushed out a new EFI so people could use the 3 Gb/s speed instead of the 1.5 Gb/s it had. There have been numerous discussions about this in numerous different forums like macrumors and Apple Discussions. I.o.w. it's also a fact that Apple has had quite a lot of sata speed problems in the past. And they weren't the only ones (a lot of people have experienced strange problems because ssd's can be too fast for the sata controller which overheats which in turn causes strange problems).
Because Apple screws up the EFI and doesn't fix it. The early 2008 MBP has the hardware for the 3 Gb/s sata speed but it is stuck at 1.5 Gb/s. All the other notebooks with the same chipset can do 3 Gb/s without any problems but the early 2008 MBP can't. They've also got some problems with newer MBP's and sata as we've seen. I think they're had this in the back of their minds when they were pointing at the Macs. OCZ is in fact not the only one doing that. A lot of hardware manufacturers have got some issues with Macs. It might not be true in this case but I can see why they'd say something like that.