Hot answers tagged ssd
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YES, it's definitely worth it. With my setup, sustained transfer speeds were roughly 75% better using SATA, vs. USB3.
I tested both configurations using ZoneBench as follows:
SSD: 120GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G
Mac: Late 2012 Mac Mini, 2.6Ghz core i7, model ID Macmini6,2, 16GB RAM
Hot-Swap unit: StarTech USB3-to-SATA dock, model SATDOCK22U3S ver2
All ...
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A firmware update for that SSD was released early this year: have you updated? The release notes mention:
Resolved a power-up timing issue that could result in a drive hang, resulting in an inability to communicate with the host computer. The hang condition would typically occur during power-up or resume from Sleep or Hibernate. Most often, a new power ...
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At least 4 GB of the SSD portion of a Fusion drive is left empty at all times. That space is used for incoming writes. If there's less than 4 GB of empty space on the SSD, Core Storage will start offloading data to the HDD.
So if all your data is less than your SSD capacity less 4 GB, then you have whatever your SSD capacity is (128 GB on all Apple supplied ...
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Ia m using a Quad 3.0 Ghz MacPro with an SSD from OWC. They have an adapter that connects the SSD to the original sled and works great. I created a boot disk with Mac OSX 10.7.5 Lion and then used Carbon Copy Cloner to move all the data from my old boot drive. Boots in about 8-10 seconds and runs Photoshop faster than the 8 core brand new MacPro my friend ...
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I own a Lacie Rugged SSD USB3/Thunderbolt 128 GB drive.
I am using it as a boot drive for my 2011 iMac over Thunderbolt.
I had no issues with it, I put the iMac into sleep over night. The drive never disconnected when a I woke up the machine from sleep. Although the drive is not as fast as an internal drive but it is a good option for an iMac if you do not ...
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I have a 2011 MBP 13" with SSD and HDD attached into SuperDrive with LMP Disk Doubler (http://www.mzone.sk/disk-doubler-3653)
Overheating - Didn't notice any overheating.
Performance issues - Works great. Made symbolic links to SSD home dir
Battery life - Maybe an overall 5-10min decrease.
Warranty status - I was in an App Store
Weight increase - No
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I can confirm that for the MBP Apple does not have a problem with users changing the drives. It does NOT void the warrantee.
My experience: I have replaced the disk drive with a 512G SSD and replaced the optical drive with a 1TB disk drive. I suspect that airflow is impacted as I feel that I run a bit hotter than before but I'm not really sure.
Battery ...
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