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Here's a link to a more recent post in other blog http://damieng.com/blog/2010/04/09/macbook-pro-upgrade-to-crucial-256gb-ssd http://damieng.com/blog/2010/04/09
by barredo 17y ago
Here's a link to a more recent post in other blog http://damieng.com/blog/2010/04/09/macbook-pro-upgrade-to-crucial-256gb-ssd http://damieng.com/blog/2010/04/09/macbook-pro-upgrade-to-cr... — Author switched original 320GB MacbookPro HDD with a Crucial 256GB SSD, it provides benchmarks and compared perfomance and an interesting points:
Don’t go with Apple’s factory-options for an SSD as they use slower Samsung drives and charge a premium for it which is unacceptable especially given how easy they are to replace.
Which I hope, if true, Apple will fix by adding high-end SSD options in the near future
- blasdel 17y agoIntel only sells their awesome SSDs retail, as demand far outstrips their inconsistent supply. When they get their production up and start offering them to OEMs, expect Apple to start using them. I don't see Apple using any of the mediocre inconsistently-performing Taiwanese SSDs.
- Andys 17y agoIIRC, Apple's very first SSD offerings were based on Intel SSDs. The move to Samsung came when Apple decided to go leadfree/halogenfree/eco-friendly and the Intel chips didnt have the correct qualifications.
- blasdel 17y agoI don't think so, I'm pretty sure the first Macbook Air was released before Intel's public efforts, the performance was pretty mediocre (not better across the board than a 2.5" laptop HD, only the terrible 1.8" iPod HD that would fit), and Apple has had multi-billion-dollar contracts with Samsung for flash memory since the iPod nano.