The State of Solid State Hard Drives. From Jeff Atwood’s report it sounds like the price/performance ratio for SSD hard drives has got to a point where switching is the most cost effective way of improving a personal machine’s performance. Anyone know what’s involved in putting one of these things in a MacBook Pro?
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I described fitting an SSD into my Macbook Pro in a blog entry:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_ 2009_06_13.shtml#e1099
Booting is faster and the benchmarking I did showed a big improvement - but I don't really *notice* that much of an improvement in general use.
Michael Foord - 14th October 2009 16:30 - #
I switched all my desktop and laptop to use SSD drives. I will never ever switch back. But be aware that if you use your personal system to run benchmarks, your random read performance can create bad surprises when you put the code in production on your servers.
Loïc d'Anterroches - 14th October 2009 17:15 - #
depends on your MBP model. Any of the newer ones (with black keys/ bezels) it's a matter of removing the bottom panel and then the drive is right there to swap out. If you have an older, silver-keyed one, give yourself a few hours to disassemble/ reassemble.
Chris Kelly - 14th October 2009 17:32 - #
The main problem with using SSDs on OS X is that it doesn't yet support the TRIM command: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%2 9
Without this command (which is supported by both Windows 7 and Linux 2.6), drive performance stunningly degrades once every single bit on the drive has seen a write. So if you buy an 80gb X25-M, as soon as your drive has seen 80gb of data, your performance drops to about 50%.
I haven't heard a peep from Apple about whether they're ever going to support TRIM.
Zain, you comment is a bit misleading, you will lose on write performance but read performance will not change at all. The snappiness effect for desktop use is way more linked to random read performance as write performance.
See Understanding the SSD Performance Degradation Problem and New vs Used SSD Performance from the AnandTech review.
Loïc d'Anterroches - 14th October 2009 19:45 - #
Installed two of the Intel X25-M 160GBs in RAID-0 on my Mac Pro. It's insanely fast. Anyone who works with computers all day long should strongly consider this upgrade, as it reduces those "grr, it's thinking about doing what I want" moments that used to sour my mood.
Unbeliaevble how well-written and informative this was.
Dayanara - 8th October 2011 17:16 - #
People nromllay pay me for this and you are giving it away!
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