The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    SSD 256gb offered by Apple question?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dmitrip, May 22, 2009.

  1. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    63
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    hey guys, i been hearing that it is not worth buying the SSD hard drive from the apple website pre-installed on the laptop because they are inferior in performance to other SSD's out there. Now if this is true, can you guys please tell me by how much worse are they? like is it a significant performance decrease from other SSD's? also are the SSD's they offer on the website SATA or the old PATA technology? from what i understand PATA is worse.

    Finally I heard that the SSD drives are actually slower in writing on the hard drive then the HDD 7200rpm, is this true or just a myth?

    thanks a lot!
     
    dmitrip, May 22, 2009
    #1
  2. count_schemula

    count_schemula Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    331
    Messages:
    1,445
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    there are slower SSDs out there, they tend to be the cheaper ones... the more expensive SSDs are faster... it is the writing that suffers and the faster ones write a lot faster...

    Try this article:

    http://techreport.com/articles.x/16848

    Apple loves profit margin, so, more than likely, they use the crappier SSDs...
     
    count_schemula, May 22, 2009
    #2
  3. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    63
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    does anybody know exactly the name of the SSD model that apple offers on their website for the macbook pro?

    thanks
     
    dmitrip, May 22, 2009
    #3
  4. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

    Reputations:
    996
    Messages:
    3,727
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    106
    My friend bought a fully decked out MBP 17" with all the options... money being no object and not wanting to piece-meal anything, and the 256gb SSD in there is freaking fast. If I have a chance I'll take a look to see brand and model thats in it, but it smokes the HDDs in my Macs, I didn't expect the SSD to be that fast, that whole machine just screams....
     
    doh123, May 22, 2009
    #4
  5. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    63
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    thanks doh123 thats what I wanted to know :)
     
    dmitrip, May 22, 2009
    #5
  6. lemonspeaker

    lemonspeaker Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    441
    Messages:
    601
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Put Ubuntu on an intel x-25M and any machine will run like a rocket. It's just that fast.
    Put Vista on the intel x-25M and the machine will scream.
    Put it on XP, and it runs like a jet.
    Put it on leopard and it screams.


    I hope you get the idea of which OS give which results on a SSD
     
    lemonspeaker, May 22, 2009
    #6
  7. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

    Reputations:
    996
    Messages:
    3,727
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    106
    looks clear as mud
     
    doh123, May 22, 2009
    #7