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    MacBook Pro SSD Brand and Specs?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by GTx08, May 24, 2010.

  1. GTx08

    GTx08 Notebook Guru

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    Just as the title states, does anyone know the brand and the read/write of the SSD thats available for MacBook Pros straight from Apple? Also is there TRIM?
     
    GTx08, May 24, 2010
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If its capacity is a power of 2, it's most likely a Samsung. The newer Samsungs do support TRIM but Apple might not be shipping those. R/W speeds should be 220/200 MB/s R/W but honestly sequential speeds do not matter much in real life.
     
    sgogeta4, May 24, 2010
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    stylinexpat, May 24, 2010
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    Samsungs are still good, solid SSDs in most real life situations. They also have very low power consumption and shouldn't be discounted because they aren't as fast as Intel's since they are still much faster than traditional HDDs.
     
    sgogeta4, May 25, 2010
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    thanks for the responses guys. now only if someone with a ssd on a macbook pro 15 i7 could open theirs and verify. :) specifically the 128GB drive. :)
     
    GTx08, May 26, 2010
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