My MacBook Pro SSD Upgrade!....

[pazz]

Still got the 335d Tom?

Ifti, have you noticed any improvements in battery life?

[Ifti]

Hmmm......i've snap ya hand off if i had a spare £600 ..... just bought another car though, so feelin propper skint :(

Nice video's though, interesting performance increases - just makes pretty much perfect that bit closer to perfect ;) :D


I run the same as you, 13" MBP 2.66 ect..... ; been thinking about upgrading to 8gb ram and an SSD......in afew months, when i'm alittle more flush again
Good combo ?? Recommendations ?

I don't really think you could do too much more with then system other then a decent SSD and lots of RAM. I dot really use the full 4GB I have at the moment TBH, which is why I was fine with the RAM I already have in place. The SSD has just made such a difference though, more then you would ever get with any ram upgrade, so I would deffo choose to do that first.

As for the drive, sell the car! Lol. It's yours for £500!
Lol.

[Ifti]

Still got the 335d Tom?

Ifti, have you noticed any improvements in battery life?

yes, battery life is reporting to be a little higher then before, but nothing that major to get excited about. The heat, however, has reduced a fair bit. Even under heavy load the drive stays at around the 30c mark max. The CPU could he right up at 80c if I'm encoding video, for example, but the Drive itself stays at a pretty constant temperature.

[NotNormal]

Still got the 335d Tom?

Ifti, have you noticed any improvements in battery life?

David, yes and no, i wrote off the 335d you saw, get the new one tomorrow all being well - another 3335d Msport in black ... well spec'd up of course

I don't really think you could do too much more with then system other then a decent SSD and lots of RAM. I dot really use the full 4GB I have at the moment TBH, which is why I was fine with the RAM I already have in place. The SSD has just made such a difference though, more then you would ever get with any ram upgrade, so I would deffo choose to do that first.

As for the drive, sell the car! Lol. It's yours for £500!
Lol.

Car's and gadgets are a hobby of mine .... but i need a car for work, so sadly i gotta have one.....£500 ya say, let me look at what i can raise ;) :)

[Ifti]

No worries.
I've been told I should expect delivery on Thursday. I don't mind keeping it by for a while if you were really interested....Either way, It will remain sealed in plastic, and it's not as though I'm desperate to sell it straight away, so no pressure mate

[bacillus]

Ifti, if you haven't already done so, you need to update to OS X 10.6.4 as previous versions apparently do not support TRIM.   

[vRS Carl]

OS X 10.6.4 isn't out yet is it?

Except for betas for developers I thought 10.6.3 was the latest

Edit just saw that it is available

I'll get me coat 

[Tfsi_Mike]

are macs as open to overclocking & fettling as most pcs nowdays?

I want a stage2+ mac book pro 

[vRS Carl]

There is no need as they work properly in the first place 

[Ifti]

Ifti, if you haven't already done so, you need to update to OS X 10.6.4 as previous versions apparently do not support TRIM.   

Yup just done it, cheers!

Does 10.6.4 support TRIM then??

[bacillus]

Ifti, if you haven't already done so, you need to update to OS X 10.6.4 as previous versions apparently do not support TRIM.  

Yup just done it, cheers!

Does 10.6.4 support TRIM then??

Yes it does but I've only just found out it's only for Apple SSD Drives....  

This is what it shows for a crucial ssd.

[bacillus]

In case you're wondering, that crucial M225 ssd above has firmware 1916 installed that supports both TRIM and Garbage collection.

[Ifti]

Yeh mine is the same as yours, although I know my drive supports TRIM. OCZ however, inform me that my drive does not need TRIM or GC since the SandForce controllers do it on-the-fly.
I know another SSD owner who has the same drive as me, just a smaller size, but he's been using it pretty heavily (film editing) for the past few months and says he's benchmarked his and hasn't had any slowdown at all. Also several people on the OCZ forums show no slow-down with their SandForce controller drives, hence Im not too bothered about TRIM etc any more. Just gonna use it and see how things go!

[Tfsi_Mike]

Yeh mine is the same as yours, although I know my drive supports TRIM. OCZ however, inform me that my drive does not need TRIM or GC since the SandForce controllers do it on-the-fly.
I know another SSD owner who has the same drive as me, just a smaller size, but he's been using it pretty heavily (film editing) for the past few months and says he's benchmarked his and hasn't had any slowdown at all. Also several people on the OCZ forums show no slow-down with their SandForce controller drives, hence Im not too bothered about TRIM etc any more. Just gonna use it and see how things go!

aaaargh 


Saaaaay whaaaaaat.   Just looking for the translation into english lol   God I used to be upto speed with comms tech & gadgetry :(

[bacillus]

Ok if you're happy thats fine but, as far as I'm aware,the OS has to send the command to the ssd controller to instigate "TRIMming" when the system is idle.