Solid State Drive Upgrade
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- BarryEvans0
I don't think the OWC Mount Pro fits inside a 2008 mac pro, I used one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ… with a samsung SSD and it went in fine
- mekk0
"Planned obsolescence" or lifespan of an SSD (theory):
One cell has a lifespan of 10.000 - 100.000 writes before it dies. When it dies, it becomes read-only, so your data is safe.
So a 250GB HDD x10.000 writes capacity can write 2.500.000 GB of data before it dies completely. When you write 10GB a day, you need 25 days to write just one of the 10.000 (to 100.000) cycles before it dies. You'll end up writing the ssd for almost 70 years (25days * 10.000 cycles / 365) before it dies. This calculation is based on the minimum lifespan of an consumer SSD.
So in theory yes, the SSD dies one day you may be able to calculate. But expect an SSD to have a longer life than a HDD.
- drgs0
I dont get it
25 days * 10.000 cycles / 365 = 687 yearsthis assumes that whole disk is available for rewrite at any time
if say 80% of your disk is in use (movies or whatever), with 50 GB available free space you write 10 GB a day = 136 years
- mekk0
^ and this is where theory vs. practice kicks in. the remaining 20% of the disk is what you use then for daily operations so this part of the SSD is faster 'dead' than the part that isn't touched. And yes, I forgot a zero in my calculator and you're right. it's almost 700 years.
No matter how you turn it, the lifespan of the cells itself is not critical in my opinion. The controller of the drive will break down way before them.
- sem0
- why not?monospaced
- More reliable, faster, quiet etc. Why would you not want that?sem
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- sem0
Also, get yourself a 2.5 caddy and replace your MacBook Pro dvd drive with ANOTHER Hard Drive.
I have a 250gb SSD where the original drive was, and 1tb HD where my DVD Drive (Superdrive) was. So the OS and apps boot up on the SSD and there is 1tb for storage.
Make sure you buy the correct caddy on eBay though as I warned about on here a good while ago http://www.qbn.com/topics/679745…
- 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.