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Just throwing in my 2 cents. I own an OCZ Vertex 2 and and OCZ Vertex 3 and both drives have been great. I would definitely buy OCZ again and would not purchase yum cha for a few extra bucks it would save.
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FlameHead posted:Just throwing in my 2 cents. This right here is what enables OCZ and other shady companies to stay in business.
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DrDork posted:Well, this both confirms that Intel is the only SandForce-based provider that I'd give my money to, and that not buying SandForce was the way to go. Talking with SandForce yesterday, it sounded like they (LSI/Sandforce) found the bug themselves, albeit a year and a half late. Intel was just one of many OEM's that released the news of the "spec sheet change" yesterday.
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FlameHead posted:Just throwing in my 2 cents. I have a vertex 2 that has crashed and had to be replaced three times in two years, the second time within a day of being plugged in for the first time.
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My employer was going to get me the OWC 6G 480 GB SSD from here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G/ This will be for a 2010 MacBook Pro, currently loaded with a 512 GB 7200RPM drive. I'm only using ~250 Gigs, but hit all kinds of I/O issues from running tons of programs and virtual machines at the same time. I figured an SSD would be a decent upgrade. Now, are there any reasons I should not get that drive? Do I need to enable trim, or does the drive have some sort of built-in trim?
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Xenomorph posted:My employer was going to get me the OWC 6G 480 GB SSD from here: The OWC SSDs are rock solid and for Apple hardware noone comes close to the level of support they offer. OWC doesn't recommend enabling TRIM on their SSDs for OSX, although you can still do it if you want. Their argument is the SandForce garbage collection works better on its own without TRIM enabled.
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I bought a Samsung 830 to replace my desktops Corsair F120. I replaced my MBP's conventional spinner with the F120 and the laptop is again usable! Earlier it took me around 40 seconds to start Word when now it takes around 5 seconds. I'm never going Back to conventional drives!
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dietcokefiend posted:The OWC SSDs are rock solid and for Apple hardware noone comes close to the level of support they offer. OWC doesn't recommend enabling TRIM on their SSDs for OSX, although you can still do it if you want. Their argument is the SandForce garbage collection works better on its own without TRIM enabled. Do they conflict with each other / cause problems? What about when I've booted to Windows 7? Will Windows try to enable TRIM itself, even if a drive has built-in garbage collection? The last hard drive we purchased was $80. I don't want to buy an $800 drive and find out I'm going to have all kinds of issues with it.
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Now that I've got both of my shiny new 256GB M4's installed, I've got a spare 120GB X25-M G2 that I pulled from one of my systems. I don't have any other computers that would benefit from it, so I'm going to stick it in a USB enclosure and use it as a super fast portable HD. I'm assuming TRIM won't work with it connected via USB, so is there any other maintenance I should do to keep it running at peak performance? I'll mostly be using it for transferring data between systems and the like, so I doubt write amplification will be a huge issue since it won't see anywhere near the amount of writes it would being used as a system drive. I'm more just curious if I need to bother with doing a secure erase from the Intel SSD toolbox every X months or whatever.
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Jun 12, 2012 18:48
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Xenomorph posted:Do they conflict with each other / cause problems? http://blog.macsales.com/11051-to-trim-or-not-to-trim-owc-has-the-answer This is the post/article around not worrying about TRIM with the OWC SSDs (all Sandforce-based) on OSX.
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chizad posted:Now that I've got both of my shiny new 256GB M4's installed, I've got a spare 120GB X25-M G2 that I pulled from one of my systems. I don't have any other computers that would benefit from it, so I'm going to stick it in a USB enclosure and use it as a super fast portable HD. I'm assuming TRIM won't work with it connected via USB, so is there any other maintenance I should do to keep it running at peak performance? I'll mostly be using it for transferring data between systems and the like, so I doubt write amplification will be a huge issue since it won't see anywhere near the amount of writes it would being used as a system drive. I'm more just curious if I need to bother with doing a secure erase from the Intel SSD toolbox every X months or whatever. If it's USB 2.0 I wouldn't give it any thought at all.
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Xenomorph posted:Do they conflict with each other / cause problems? The Mac Performance Guide article is a pretty good example of the kind of really bad hardware advice you see out there from people who only know enough to be dangerous, especially a risk with people whose expertise is in software.
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Will installing Windows on an SSD affect anything other than boot times? I'm getting a smallish ssd soon and I'm trying to decide if it's worth the space.
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open container posted:Will installing Windows on an SSD affect anything other than boot times? I'm getting a smallish ssd soon and I'm trying to decide if it's worth the space. e: I forgot about system updates and virus scans. Sometimes I click to update windows and it's ready to go in seconds. That's pretty cool. future ghost fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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grumperfish posted:Anything running on the SSD will feel faster, so office applications, photoshop, the web browser, etc, will all open quickly. It won't really change performance all that much, but things like unzipping a large archive while copying something to the SSD won't drag the system down. Yeah, that's the biggest benefit of an SSD. It's obviously not going to help with CPU/GPU performance, but anything running from an SSD is just so much more responsive than a mechanical drive that the computer feels like it's gotten faster. Here's a couple examples of the difference an SSD makes: 1) I know you asked specifically about Windows, but yesterday I put a Crucial M4 in my Early 2009 (2GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM) Mac Mini. It seriously feels like a brand new computer. 2) I work in IT, and about half of the laptops we've got in use have SSDs and are otherwise identical hardware. They aren't anything special either, just the "enterprise" models that Toshiba/Samsung were providing to OEMs a couple years ago. (For reference, an X-25M G2 from the same era dominates these drives in pretty much any benchmark.) But there's still enough of a difference that I start getting impatient when I have to work on a laptop that has a mechanical HD in it.
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fookolt posted:Oh poo poo. I know this is post is old but we bought these to use at work as we ran out of the ones Intel provides and they work great. You can also fit two SSDs in it  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817997013
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Newegg has the 128 GB Samsung 830 with FREE SHIPPING on sale for $89.99! Use promo code EMCYTZT1751 to get $40 off $129! Still in stock as of this posting! Edit: VVVV Thanks, forgot to link it.. PRICE IS ONLY VALID FOR TODAY, 6/13! One of the best brands, there's no excuse with this price to not get into the world of SSDs. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Just to link it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147163 Yup, hell of a deal..
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How do the 830s compare to the M4s? My 64GB M4 has been more or less full for several months now, and this seems like a good time to replace it. Edit: For anyone in the UK - Samsung 830 256GB for £143. OppyDoppyDopp fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 13, 2012 |
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Alereon posted:TRIM should always be enabled on drives that support it, which is what Windows will do. While Sandforce controllers have industry leading garbage collection that will reduce the performance and lifespan impact of TRIM being disabled, it still won't work as well as with TRIM turned on. The reason why it isn't recommended to enable TRIM on OSX is that it's only validated to work well with the SSDs Apple ships in their systems, and may cause stability issues with other SSDs. The "best of both worlds" solution is to leave TRIM disabled, but periodically enable it and then TRIM the drive. This will restore the drive to like-new performance, but without the risk of stability issues. The one caveat here is the actual manufacturer of the SSD is recommending the practice as well. This isn't exactly like the time BenchmarkReviews told its readers to run SSDs in IDE mode to get higher sequential transfer speeds 
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HTJ posted:How do the 830s compare to the M4s? My 64GB M4 has been more or less full for several months now, and this seems like a good time to replace it. Except Northern Ireland. Postage costs from EBuyer are still ridiculous for us most of the time :\
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HTJ posted:How do the 830s compare to the M4s? My 64GB M4 has been more or less full for several months now, and this seems like a good time to replace it.
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Binary Badger posted:Newegg has the 128 GB Samsung 830 with FREE SHIPPING on sale for $89.99! quote:The promo code EMCYTZT1751 has been closed and is no longer active. I just came here to see if the drive was any good after getting the promo email from newegg
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My sister is planning on buying one of the new 13" MacBook pro's, and I am looking into picking out a ssd and installing it for her aftermarket. She is not very technologically astute so I'm not planning on using TRIM enabler as I will not be around to fix any problems that may arise. Of the affordable (<$1/gb) ssd's which one's have generally the best onboard garbage collection? From reading above, seems like I should look for one with a SF controller? Was looking at maybe a m4 but after reading the Anandtech review, seems like it may not be the best choice to run without TRIM. Was aiming at a 256gb drive but that Samsung 830 128gb on sale is tempting. Can anyone give a rough estimate of the size of OSX install?
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quote:I truly apologize. However, I show the funding for this promotion has been exhausted. The promotion is no longer available. However, we are currently aware of this and have contacted our related department to check if it is possible to get more promotional funds in order to activate this code again. Please try to check this after 1-2 hours. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
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Binary Badger posted:Newegg has the 128 GB Samsung 830 with FREE SHIPPING on sale for $89.99! gently caress I should have checked this thread earlier! 
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gggiiimmmppp posted:
Purchased This one goes to parents' laptop I think! But then what do I do with my 120GB Vertex 3 MI when I finally replace it with a 256GB drive? 
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movax posted:
That sucks. Well, there's always the Intel 330 180 GB for $130 after rebate http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Series-2-5-inch/dp/B007P71JJM/ (or 120GB for $105 after rebate)
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ToG posted:Except Northern Ireland. DrDork posted:Just note that the package it comes with is bare-bones, so no mounting adapter, if you care about that sort of thing.
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TomEmanski posted:My sister is planning on buying one of the new 13" MacBook pro's, and I am looking into picking out a ssd and installing it for her aftermarket. I am putting an 830 into my friend's new 17" MBP tomorrow when it arrives as that seems to be the best regarded drive aside from the OWC ones.
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I managed to get my order in for three of them about six minutes after I posted  Ugh, it's back to $149? WTF? Now includes free download of Ghost Recon. Whoop de loving do. For awhile the 128 GB was cheaper than the 64 GB ($99).
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Binary Badger posted:Ugh, it's back to $149? WTF? Now includes free download of Ghost Recon. Whoop de loving do. For awhile the 128 GB was cheaper than the 64 GB ($99). That's one of the ones that comes with additional bits and bobs, the barebones one is just out of stock right now but probably still $130. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=samsung+830+128gb&x=0&y=0 I got my order in when the deal was refreshed just before noon, looking forward to it since it'll be my first SSD.
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The only thing that can console me about the Samsung 830 being $90 today when I bought a Kingston HyperX 3K for $90 AFTER REBATE a couple weeks ago and sending the rebate out Monday is that the Kingston still benchmarks faster in the majority of my usage scenarios.  I remember thinking that prices would stop falling once the Samsung 830 hits $90. Maybe now the question is when the 256GB version hits $150, though I don't have much need for another one. Ugh, now if 3TB HDD's would be $100 again.
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TomEmanski posted:My sister is planning on buying one of the new 13" MacBook pro's, and I am looking into picking out a ssd and installing it for her aftermarket. I'm probably missing something but I know on some of the new macbooks the SSD is basically soldered on.
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Boten Anna posted:I'm probably missing something but I know on some of the new macbooks the SSD is basically soldered on. The RAM is soldered on to the Macbook Air and Macbook Pro Retina. It's a regular SATA SSD in the 13", 17" and 15" non-retina Macbook Pro.
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Ah, I saw a teardown earlier that I think was the Retina one.
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Boten Anna posted:Ah, I saw a teardown earlier that I think was the Retina one. Yeah there are a couple articles about htem going around today and how they basically have no user serviceable parts
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Dogen posted:Yeah there are a couple articles about htem going around today and how they basically have no user serviceable parts You can remove the SSD (and wireless card). So in theory, you could buy a larger SSD from someone who broke theirs and is parting it out, or someone like OWC could create and aftermarket replacment. It's similar but not the same as the one in the Air.
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