Upgraded to SSD

[vladb2]

Just installed the OWC Mercury SSD in my Mac Pro. The computer is stupid fast now. Best investment I ever made. Things feel x10 faster. Boot time is like 8-10 sec, instead of 1.5 minutes.

 

[dmnEPC]

Just make sure you keep a good backup. All it takes is one corrupted block and you can loose everything with those SSD drive

 

[sumohax0r]

Just installed the OWC Mercury SSD in my Mac Pro. The computer is stupid fast now. Best investment I ever made. Things feel x10 faster. Boot time is like 8-10 sec, instead of 1.5 minutes.

FAIL man the you should have waited, the new "500MB/s" OCZ SSD's are coming out very soon, and only cost $250 for the 120GB model with 500MB/s read and write thats like 2.5x faster then all SSD's right now.

OCZ's consumer-grade Vertex 3 SSD gets benched, SandForce SF-2281 helps it spank competition -- Engadget

 

[vladb2]

Ya I have time machine setup. I heard the OWC SSD drives are much more reliable then HDD's.

 

[vladb2]

FAIL man the you should have waited, the new "500MB/s" OCZ SSD's are coming out very soon, and only cost $250 for the 120GB model with 500MB/s read and write thats like 2.5x faster then all SSD's right now.

OCZ's consumer-grade Vertex 3 SSD gets benched, SandForce SF-2281 helps it spank competition -- Engadget

I think its faster then my SATA controller on the Mac Pro. So I don't really care about it.

 

[vladb2]

FAIL man the you should have waited, the new "500MB/s" OCZ SSD's are coming out very soon, and only cost $250 for the 120GB model with 500MB/s read and write thats like 2.5x faster then all SSD's right now.

OCZ's consumer-grade Vertex 3 SSD gets benched, SandForce SF-2281 helps it spank competition -- Engadget

Just checked my SATA connection can only do 300 mb/s.

99.9% of computers have that limit too.

I love how you call me out without doing the research.

 

[BNR34]

the interface will do 300mb/s yes

the vertex 2 will do 500mb/s a sequential reading, but when doing something a bit more interesting it will still max out your interface, a slower drive wont.

see here:

http://www.storagereview.com/images/ocz_vertex3_240gb_2mb_randomtransfer_4k.png

 

[vladb2]

Is it possible to setup SSD's as a RAID 0 Array?

 

[BNR34]

yeah

 

[vladb2]

So you can double the speed of say a 500 mb/s setup? Can the RAID controller really handle that type of speed?