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    Switching To SSD, Few Questions

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by MKang25, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    I have a 2011 15" MBP, I was looking at getting either the 128GB Crucial M4 or OWC Mercury Extreme. I am not a heavy user, I do moderate video editing and photoshop but nothing heavy, some moderate gaming, a good amount of coding, and a fairly decent amount of excel work. so I was wondering if I would notice the speed difference between the M4 with a Marvell Controller and the faster Sandforce SSD.

    Also I know for the Crucial M4 needs the 02 firmware. I read on other sites about stuff on LPM, AHCI, IDE mode stuff I haven't seen before, do these things apply for OS X. Are these things that I will have to worry about when I boot into bootcamp.

    I plan on getting a 128GB SSD, but would there be a big performance hit compared to a 256GB SSD. Would there be a loss in performance since the 128GB SSD I would buy would be pretty much filled 100GB or more.
     
    MKang25, Jul 28, 2011
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  2. avservice

    avservice Notebook Consultant

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    If you are switching to an SSD for the first time,I will bet you will not notice the difference regardless which one you get,
    I am not kidding.
    They are just so much faster than a spinner that is the biggest jump.

    I am sure this is not what you are looking to hear but I have 4 machines with SSD and can not really sense a speed difference between them.

    They are all amazing every time I use them.
    Ed
     
    avservice, Jul 28, 2011
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  3. KCETech1

    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    moderate video editing? as in how large of files and what software. for me I could eat up a 128GB SSD in moments. general rule of thumb is keep 15-40 GB for your scratch file. and depending on the size and format of your sources, multiply that by 2 - 15.

    Speed may not be an issues but depending on your needs SIZE may be,
     
    KCETech1, Jul 29, 2011
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