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Solid State Hard Drives?
Jock Fistick, Photographer
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Brussels | Belgium | | Posted: 2:51 PM on 01.20.10 |
->> Anyone using a Macbook Pro or any other laptop for that matter - Mac or PC with a solid state drive inside? Just wondering what your experience has been - good bad or indifferent. The only problems I've ever had with any Apple laptop over the past 20 yrs. have been heat and hard drive failure. So, ordering a new Macbook Pro with the solid state hard drive option makes sense to me - unless ya'll have contrary advice?
Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom...! |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 3:49 PM on 01.20.10 |
->> They tend to use a variety of Hitachi, Samsung, and Toshiba SSD's - so pretty quick, but not the fastest (Intel). They're comparable to or faster than current hard drives, but the capacity is pretty limited.
The drive does still have a limited lifetime, though I'm unable to find numbers on that anywhere.
Overall, they're great if you have the budget and can work with the limited space. Backing up is still necessary obviously too, since drives often fail due to power surges, brownouts, fire, water, etc.
An option that might be ideal - the technology in SSD's is advancing very rapidly and drive sizes have been doubling yearly, with costs decreasing rapidly - so it might be advantageous to wait six months to a year and buy a much faster and higher capacity SSD on your own if you don't need the extra speed immediately. |
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John Cheng, Photographer
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New Milford | CT | USA | Posted: 4:11 PM on 01.20.10 |
| ->> I love my 256GB SSD in my MBP. Fast bootup and application startup. I/O intensive applications like Aperture run a lot faster as well. Sure it's still an expensive option but I think it's well worth it. |
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Max Simbron, Photographer, Assistant
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 5:55 PM on 01.20.10 |
| ->> I have an SSD in my 17" MBP. It's awesome. Best part: 3 second shutdown time. But there are other niceties, such as better battery life and the lack of moving parts. the MBP still gets warm, but the SSD probably doesn't contribute as much heat as a standard moving parts hard drive would. |
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Mike Huffstatler, Photographer, Assistant
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Rancho Cucamonga | Ca | United States | Posted: 7:53 PM on 01.20.10 |
->> As mentioned above, SSD drives have advanced very quickly. Reliability int he current generation is quite good, and performance is outstanding. Many drives will offer read speeds that exceed that of a 10k traditional HDD, and writes that are nearly as quick. You'll also get improved battery life as most operate with at least a 20% power savings over traditional drives.
Capacities are improving as well. I have a Dell Z600 with dual 256gb SSD drives and it kicks butt.
Mike |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 10:36 PM on 01.20.10 |
->> Call me crazy, but I put an Intel SSD in my netbook...yes, the drive cost as much as the rest of the machine. But that baby flies now and I don't miss my full-size laptop at all.
Liked it so much I put another one in my quad-core desktop as a boot drive, and the performance boost, while not as dramatic, is there. |
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Andrew Villa, Student/Intern, Assistant
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San Jose | CA | United States | Posted: 11:07 PM on 01.20.10 |
->> I think if I were you, I'd buy the MBP with the regular drive in it and then upgrade to a Runcore 2.5" drive from MyDigitalDiscount.com
They include everything to clone your existing drive to the SSD and now you have a back up drive too.
Those are just my thoughts. Heck you could the route of ripping out the optical drive and run dual SSD's if you really wanted to be cool. Not sure if you have that kind of cash laying around though.
-Andrew |
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Jock Fistick, Photographer
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Brussels | Belgium | | Posted: 2:40 PM on 01.21.10 |
| ->> Andrew - that's even too geeky for me! :-) But thanks for the feedback guys - I should be ordering my new MBP in a few days and will go with the SSD. |
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Joseph Toth, Photographer
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Cambridge | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 4:41 PM on 01.21.10 |
->> Jock,
My experience with SSD in the Macbook Pro has been great. One thing I would recommend is ordering the laptop with the normal drive and then swapping. It might be a bit cheaper, at least it was for me. I went with an OCZ SSD drive and have had no complaints or issues.
Joe |
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Jock Fistick, Photographer
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Brussels | Belgium | | Posted: 5:49 PM on 01.21.10 |
| ->> Joseph - I was thinking about this too - but I've been looking around on this side of the channel and haven't found the savings to be worth the hassle of cloning the stock drive and swapping it out for a less expensive (than the Apple store) SSD - unless you can point me somewhere? To me - saving any less than 100 euros isn't worth the time and effort. I know this might be more worthwhile if I were stateside - but ordering from there and having things shipped here creates another set of issues. It's just easier and more efficient to keep things on the continent :-) But if you know of a reputable dealer that has substantially better prices than what Apple is charging - bring it on! |
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