Thought on transcend SSD upgrade for mid 2012 MBP

Hi Guys,

I have a mid 2012 13" Macbook Pro and want to replace the factory installed 500GB HDD with a 512GB SSD.
Altough i would have liked to get an Intel or Corsair i simply cannot afford either of those at the moment.

I came across a Transcend 512GB SSD (TS512GSSD720) which i within my budget, and also offers the capacity/performance balance im looking for.

But i am not sure how reliable Transcend is, haven't had a lot of experience with any Transcend products.

Any thoughts on transcend reliability/quality ?

Any input would be highly appreciated.

Regards

 

Sandforce controller so that makes me a bit wary. If its anything like the OCZ 512GB units that are failing with the sandforce, I would go save up a few extra dollars and go intel/corsair/samsung

 

Or buy a smaller SSD and caddy to put the original HDD in the optical bay.

 

I wouldn't bother with any of the "me too" Sandforce SSDs from no-names in the SSD marketplace. Crucial, Corsair, Plextor, Intel, or Samsung are safe bets.

 

Thanx for the input guys.
Also, should i enable TRIM once OSX ML is installed on the drive, or should i just leave it be ?
I have read a plethora of different forms with mixed opinions and its left me confused. Apparently SSD's that are factory-installed with Macbook's have TRIM enabled in OSX but, when an after-market (3rd party) SSD is installed TRIM is disabled or turned-off.

According to many formites, the garbage collection feature on most recent SSD's are sufficient to keep the drives performance levels good, but then others say that without TRIM enabled the drives lifespan would decrease.

Any thoughts ?

 

Well I have a friend with a Crucial M4 SSD that also had mixed info on.. some say TRIM some say don't.. some say its built in GC is better, some say its worse...

All of that is beside the fact... we went ahead and enabled TRIM on it after running for several months without.. and everything has been noticeably quicker. I'd say TRIM is a good thing to do.

 

@ doh123, that's precisely the type of feedback i was looking for. Thanks a lot !

 

OCZ is known for its failures not just with Sandforce but with other controllers as well. Overall i would recommend Intel drives- Though expensive but worth every cent for the performance and Intel reliability

 

Can't say I agree with that since Intel has gone with Sandforce for its drives as well. Out of the two dozen or so SSDs I've owned over the years, I would go with either Crucial or Samsung. For a Mac, I prefer Crucial because its firmware-update process is OS agnostic, which is not the case for Samsung. Definitely avoid OCZ, though.