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I would actually give the SandForce drives a try. They have better garbage collection. TRIM is coming in Snow Leopard, but it is always nice to have good garbag
by dvdhsu 16y ago
I would actually give the SandForce drives a try. They have better garbage collection. TRIM is coming in Snow Leopard, but it is always nice to have good garbage collection on the hardware.
SandForce wins right now in $/gb, and 4K writes. It loses in anything that is limited by the SATA2 bus, such as sequential transfers.
- irons 16y agoThe stories about TRIM coming in Lion also pointed out that so far it was only supported on Apple's own SSDs. Also, the major problem with Sandforce drives on Macs is that their firmware can only be updated a) under Windows, in Boot Camp, and b) with an MBR-formatted disk. That is bullshit. http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=sf_firmware.html http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?pag...
- reitzensteinm 16y agoAh, good point about the lack of trim in OS X. The Sandforce controller would indeed be a better fit there.