Solid State Drive Upgrade
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- sem0
For anyone questioning SSD
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- nb0
For anyone questioning SSD:
I dropped an SSD in my machine a while back, and now the system starts up and shutdowns in about ten seconds. So great. I've really noticed a huge improvement in my relationships with family and friends with those extra four minutes of free time each week.
- Same here, since getting an SSD I found I have more friends in life and lost weight!sem
- boobs0
I got an SSD for my Mac when the original hard drive was starting to go fuckity. I installed it myself, and it works great!
Definitely a worthwhile upgrade. Especially noticeable when using Logic Pro and Native Instruments! Big improvement there!
- mg330
I'm probably going to upgrade my 2011 MBP 128GB SSD to a larger one in the next couple of weeks. Can't find the exact specs on that one, but I know that newer ones have even faster read/write speeds, and Crucial has a 240GB drive for around $140. Doubling the space will be nice.
I use a 1 TB external drive (My Passport Studio) and it'd be convenient to move some things to the computer to have available all the time.
- sem0
This is what I got in my MBP
http://www.ebuyer.com/353112-ocz…Great size and speeds for decent price. There is a cheaper version with better rating though (just lacks IOP performance) http://www.ebuyer.com/583285-ocz…
- OCZ went bankrupt btw, might want to be careful about warranty issues.zarkonite
- http://arstechnica.c…zarkonite
- Thanks for the heads up. I backup well though so should be ok.sem
- I have one of those sitting on my desk. Bricked ,out of no where with no warning. I hold onto it with the hope that one day we can resurrect it like walt disney.dorkKn1ght
- mg330
Someone in the past posted a link to a great article on the proper method of moving a time machine backup to a new SSD. Anyone know what that article is?
I've got a new SSD arriving today to upgrade from my 128GB SSD to 256 GB SSD. Just need to make sure I follow the best method of migrating a backup from Time Machine so everything is the same on the new one.
Thanks.
- mg330
Holy damn this thing is fast now! Had some issues using a Time Machine backup to restore to a new SSD, but used Carbon Copy Cloner and everything worked well.
Ran benchmark tests of my original SSD against the new one:
Old Read / Write numbers were each in the mid 100s.
New Read / Write numbers are in the upper 400s and above 500.Considering I have 16 GB of RAM in this, I don't think there's anything I can do to make it any faster. Awesome.
- kalkal0
Most SSDs that fail, don't fail because they hit the limit of writes, they usually fail because the controller is crappy, mostly on older sandforce based models.
If you're only using it for your programs, it will last many years.
Smaller ones (like 128gb) can usually hold 3000-4000 full writes (and all writes to an SSD are as random as possible), so you're looking at writing hundreds of terabytes until it dies, and like I said, if you're only installing your apps on it, you're not going to be writing anything close to that any time soon.