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I picked up a 160GB X-25M G2 for $450 on Newegg the minute they were posted - I have it installed in an otherwise-maxed 17" non-unibody MacBook Pro. It's an am

by rufo 17y ago

I picked up a 160GB X-25M G2 for $450 on Newegg the minute they were posted - I have it installed in an otherwise-maxed 17" non-unibody MacBook Pro. It's an amazing and surprising difference, one that reminds me of my first dual-processor machine. It's not that your system feels faster when doing one thing (although it does), but that no matter how much you throw at it, it just doesn't slow down - a tremendous difference from the chug I experienced on the 250GB drive that was previously installed. Easily the best $450 I've spent on an upgrade in a long, long time - far more effective than replacing my MBP would'be been.

thismat 17y ago
I have an OCZ SSD in my desktop machine and I can agree with you, the biggest noticeable difference to me is in moving and deleting large files. I can't remember the last time I had to wait on a file to do the whole moving/copying/deleting dialog.
- rufo 17y ago
  I almost grabbed an OCZ, but I'd seen enough reports in their forum of odd problems with Macs that I decided to stick with the Intel. When I bought the G2, it was reasonably competitive with the other drives - I think the pricing on competitive drives has come down quite a bit since then, but the G2 is fast and stable - I have no complaints.
  - thismat 17y ago
    I hear ya, and yeah I've seen the issues related to the Macs on the forums, though I think they've come a long ways in the recent months. On that note, the OCZ forums are awesome, that company deserves heaps of praise for it's communication with the community. Developers are constantly releasing beta firmware and pre-release (fresh builds) there.
laut 17y ago
It's the best. Here's a chart showing how much faster it is than anything else at random reads: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/34nmSSD/Review/used-4kb-read-mbs.png http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/34nmSSD/Re... I've put the same disk in my MacBook Pro. Strongly recommended.

by rufo 17y ago

thismat 17y ago

I have an OCZ SSD in my desktop machine and I can agree with you, the biggest noticeable difference to me is in moving and deleting large files. I can't remember the last time I had to wait on a file to do the whole moving/copying/deleting dialog.

rufo 17y ago
I almost grabbed an OCZ, but I'd seen enough reports in their forum of odd problems with Macs that I decided to stick with the Intel. When I bought the G2, it was reasonably competitive with the other drives - I think the pricing on competitive drives has come down quite a bit since then, but the G2 is fast and stable - I have no complaints.
- thismat 17y ago
  I hear ya, and yeah I've seen the issues related to the Macs on the forums, though I think they've come a long ways in the recent months. On that note, the OCZ forums are awesome, that company deserves heaps of praise for it's communication with the community. Developers are constantly releasing beta firmware and pre-release (fresh builds) there.

laut 17y ago

It's the best. Here's a chart showing how much faster it is than anything else at random reads: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/34nmSSD/Review/used-4kb-read-mbs.png http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/34nmSSD/Re... I've put the same disk in my MacBook Pro. Strongly recommended.