SSD Are Me!

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

What are you paying for them in Canadian $ Thor? If the price difference is so high - just paypal someone from Calgarypuck and have them pop it in the post for you.

Here's an example, this one is about 30,000kr which is $245 CAD:

http://buy.is/product.php?id_product=9201056

[Burninator]

Bought and installed the OCZ Vertex 2 120GB and 8GB of RAM on the weekend. The combination of the SSD, RAM and a fresh install of Windows 7 has breathed life into my 4 year old PC. It's so snappy now. Very happy with the purchase.

The guide that I was following for the installation of the drive said I should update the driver for my Intel SATA controller if i have one. How do I know if I have one? I updated the SSD's firmware and MB firmware.

[photon]

Depends on what chipset your motherboard uses, you should be able to download the most recent sata drivers from the manufacturer website for your chipset.

[MickMcGeough]

Pfft. All our SSDs are so 2010.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/02/o...0-000-iops-pl/

Not entirely relevant to this discussion since we're talking about consumer-level tech, but I'd sure like to see what a system running from a set of disks running at 5600MB/s feels like.

[photon]

Finally got an SSD into my MBP. Didn't know I would have to take out 22 screws and remove the keyboard totally, but got it done and now it flies!

Now I just have to find 4GB DDR2 RAM and I can bump it up to 6GB, and won't have to worry about upgrading for another few years.

[worth]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Bought and installed the OCZ Vertex 2 120GB and 8GB of RAM on the weekend. The combination of the SSD, RAM and a fresh install of Windows 7 has breathed life into my 4 year old PC. It's so snappy now. Very happy with the purchase.

The guide that I was following for the installation of the drive said I should update the driver for my Intel SATA controller if i have one. How do I know if I have one? I updated the SSD's firmware and MB firmware.

What guide were you using?

I have pretty much the exact same computer you do and am thinking of doing the same upgrade.

[photon]

The guide was on ifixit, I'm on my phone so I don't know the link sorry.

There was also a video somewhere, I just google MacBook pro 3,1 hdd replace.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by worth

What guide were you using?

I have pretty much the exact same computer you do and am thinking of doing the same upgrade.

I used these:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windo...;siu-container
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windo...;siu-container
I didn't change anything with the paging file mostly out of ignorance.

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

Originally Posted by photon

Finally got an SSD into my MBP. Didn't know I would have to take out 22 screws and remove the keyboard totally, but got it done and now it flies!

Now I just have to find 4GB DDR2 RAM and I can bump it up to 6GB, and won't have to worry about upgrading for another few years.

Did the same recently.

I have a mid-2009 15 inch Macbook Pro. I bought a 120 GB OWC Mercury Pro 3G and swapped it into the hard drive bay. Swapped out the DVD into an external enclosure and placed the pre-existing hard drive (a WD Scorpio Black) into the now-empty DVD bay.

The SSD has the system OS and the apps; all other files on the HD. It's a great update and has removed any feelings of "new laptop envy."

[sclitheroe]

Thoughts/opinions on this?
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...34599(ME).aspx

[photon]

Wow old school. Pre sandforce controller, I can't even remember.

Impressive price though. Would be great for an older laptop or htpc or something.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by photon

Wow old school. Pre sandforce controller, I can't even remember.

Impressive price though. Would be great for an older laptop or htpc or something.

I'm considering using it in either a Core Duo (not Core2) iMac, or in a DVD slot adapter as a second drive in my already SSD equipped Macbook Pro.

I'm using a stock Apple branded Samsung SSD (ie no TRIM, and generally not noted for being very fast) which I consider to be PLENTY fast relative to normal hard drives.

In those capacities it seems like it would be reasonable. Do you know if they have reliability issues at all? Reliability/durability and lack of noise are the two biggest factors for me in SSD's.

[Hack&Lube]

A cheap drive like that would do wonders for what feels like a very slow netbook. I just picked up a 60GB Kingston drive for $60 for a netbook and it boots 10 times as faster than it used to. The netbook doesn't even have native SATA or AHCI. It uses a PATA bridge to SATA chip which crashes when it gets TRIM commands so I had to install Vista (doesn't enable trim by default), initiate the Windows 7 install from inside Vista, then interrupt the installation every time it rebooted (3 times) with a BART XP boot disc and import the registry hives and manually disable trim from the Windows 7 registry 3 times during the install. But it's just a netbook, I don't really need trim. Hardly any big files or programs get written to disk.

[freedogger]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Pfft. All our SSDs are so 2010.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/02/o...0-000-iops-pl/

Not entirely relevant to this discussion since we're talking about consumer-level tech, but I'd sure like to see what a system running from a set of disks running at 5600MB/s feels like.

The revo 3 x2 is only 1600 on newegg right now. 200k iops and close to 1500 mb/s. Matched up with an oc'ed 2600k would be a pretty sweet dev box.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by freedogger

The revo 3 x2 is only 1600 on newegg right now. 200k iops and close to 1500 mb/s. Matched up with an oc'ed 2600k would be a pretty sweet dev box.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820227743

$1,659.99 costs $500 more than a decent entire system with a 2600K would.

[REDVAN]

Help!

I have a 40gb ssd where I keep windows 7 32 bit, and other program files. I do not have that many programs- iTunes, firefox, picasa and ms office.

Every day I get messages that my disc is full and need to clean stuff out- but I am at a loss of what I can clean.

I save everything on secondary or external drives.

What can I clean out to give me some space? I plan to replace almost all the pieces in this machine very soon, but until then I need help finding space!

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Help!

I have a 40gb ssd where I keep windows 7 32 bit, and other program files. I do not have that many programs- iTunes, firefox, picasa and ms office.

Every day I get messages that my disc is full and need to clean stuff out- but I am at a loss of what I can clean.

I save everything on secondary or external drives.

What can I clean out to give me some space? I plan to replace almost all the pieces in this machine very soon, but until then I need help finding space!

Do you have your iTunes & Picasa libraries stored on your secondary?

It'll probably always be a challenge keeping your OS/App partition under 40GB.

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Do you have your iTunes & Picasa libraries stored on your secondary?

It'll probably always be a challenge keeping your OS/App partition under 40GB.

Yes my libraries are on other drives (I have a few hundred GB of photos and a few hundred of music as well...)

[Burninator]

Have you run the Disk Cleanup utility? Check all the boxes and that could clear up some space.

[photon]

Yeah or download and use CCleaner, it'll clean out temporary files from different apps, boot dumps, etc.

Check your itunes directory on the boot drive anyway, the backups itunes makes can take up a lot of space, there's a way to redirect those as well, you have to make a virtual link, if you need I can try and track down the instructions for that.