How fast is the Solid State Disk (SSD) that comes with the new MacBook?
Hi all,
Has anyone found benchmarks that show the speed difference between the stock 5400 rpm drive and the 128 mb SSD upgrade on the (late 2008) macbook?
How fast boot times? Photoshop start-up times? other benchmarks?
it seems the harddisks are the main bottleneck causing computers today to feel slower than 5-10 years ago (just compare Photoshop 5.0 with CS3)
Any speed difference in loading times will be a HUGE upgrade in my opinion. So i dont mind the extra price tag.
Has anyone found benchmarks that show the speed difference between the stock 5400 rpm drive and the 128 mb SSD upgrade on the (late 2008) macbook?
How fast boot times? Photoshop start-up times? other benchmarks?
it seems the harddisks are the main bottleneck causing computers today to feel slower than 5-10 years ago (just compare Photoshop 5.0 with CS3)
Any speed difference in loading times will be a HUGE upgrade in my opinion. So i dont mind the extra price tag.
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http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp08.html
SSD has a ways to go before I personally shell out the extra dough.
Actually I'd say app bloat has caused more of a slowdown. As HDD areal density has increased the drive throughput has risen.
http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp08.html
SSD has a ways to go before I personally shell out the extra dough.
thanks for the link. But it's kinda hard to translate to real-world numbers. It looks like it actually reads around 50% faster than conventional disks....So all apps, file loading and booting will be 50% faster or what? Besides they didnt test the SSD that comes with the upgrade from Apple , but a different one.
I could be awsome to see some real world numbers with the SSD suplied with apple.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...=583649&page=3
Despite the price, I think the reliability, silence and performance is worth it. I hate the fact that hard drives can just clunk and die at any instant. I've had it happen before and it's not a nice experience.
It seems to be the case that the cheaper drives with the JMicron controller are to be avoided (OCZ etc) as they have trouble with random writes. The best one reviewed is the Intel X25-M.
By early next year, a few manufacturers will be clambering for the top spot and will hopefully drop prices, increase capacity and sort out the write issues. 256GB models are supposed to be coming soon.