topic SSD in Installation & update

SSD

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:17:11 GMT

anyone running a solid state drive? New computer time and I am trying to figure out what should be in the box.

Thanks Cary

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:31:37 GMT

Here're a couple of Mac benchmarks of SSD vs HD. Some feedback on someone using AC would be interesting, but the numbers here are probably useful:

http://www.barefeats.com/hard121.html

http://www.barefeats.com/hard118.html

Cheers,
Karl

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:23:08 GMT

Make sure your run it from a SATA ii, 3.0 Gb/s connector,
SLC is better than MLC technology,
Read reviews, some SSD's run slower in RAID than solo!,
SSDs (some Intel excepted) degrade performance with use.

Some reading for WinTel machines:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-performance-power,2279.html