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    serious battery life issues with Corsair F115 in 2010 MBP

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by benx009, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. benx009

    benx009 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a 15" 2010 Macbook Pro that I, after a lot of research, bought a Corsair F115 for, mostly because of good reviews and a great price. At first I installed the SSD in place of the optical drive, but after observing abysmal battery life, removed my HDD and just placed the SSD there (so I have no optical drive in my laptop currently). Abysmal battery life for me means 3 1/2 hrs on a 95% charge, which is something I've never experienced before (it's usually ~6 hrs). Of course, this is with integrated graphics on w/ gfxcardstatus.

    I've been through a tiring back-and-forth between Lion and SL, but I'm seeing similar results in both OSs. I've turned TRIM off and on w/ TRIM enabler too. I'm pretty sure my SSD installation is the issue here because I was experiencing great battery life before.

    I was just hoping to get feedback from people knowledgeable with this sort of thing, since this is my first venture into the realm of SSDs and all. Anyone know what the issue here might be? Is this a common problem on drives with Sandforce controllers? For what it's worth, I also have a Core i7 Windows desktop too, and can run tests in that. I'm also running what I believe to the latest firmware (v 2.1a) on the drive. Thanks!! :D
     
    benx009, Jul 20, 2011
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  2. KCETech1

    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    toss a mechanical drive back in and check battery life with it?

    I cant see an SSD pulling that much extra power, a 50% reduction in battery life would be like trying to run a BD writer and 2 mechanical drives hard at the same time, I dont think any drive can pull that much juice.
     
    KCETech1, Jul 21, 2011
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  3. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    what is the firmware in it? and the reviews were wrong the f115 aint a good drive at all, I have the f120
     
    Karamazovmm, Jul 21, 2011
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    benx009 Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, I've basically given up on the problem since when I tried running my MBP off my old seagate HD only, I was seeing similar results with that too. I went back to my HDD+SSD, poor battery-life setup for now.

    Maybe I fried something somewhere during the SSD install, because I'm sure I was experiencing great battery life beforehand. CoconutBattery is displaying 91% battery capacity, so it's definitely weird that this would be happening.

    Currently running firmware 2.1a in the SSD. Yeah, maybe I should've gone with an F120, or an m4.
     
    benx009, Jul 21, 2011
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