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Best SSD for Mac Pro?

Wow.

Wow, what a thread has this turned into.....

Thank you all for all of your input, thoughts, etc.

As for me, I ended up ordering the new Mac Pro with 6 core and SSD in the first bay. 2TB for the other slots. Looking forward to it now...
 
jchoiny said:
Wow, what a thread has this turned into.....

Thank you all for all of your input, thoughts, etc.

As for me, I ended up ordering the new Mac Pro with 6 core and SSD in the first bay. 2TB for the other slots. Looking forward to it now...
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You ordered all that through Apple?
 
Yup

Yup, ordered through Apple business dept at my local store. Also ordered the outgoing 30 inch ACD. Got a business discount.
 
Well since you got a discount thats not too bad. That would have been a beating if you ordered that for full price.
 
Just letting you all know;

I have now been using my Crucial RealSSD (250GB) for about a month, and have it filled up completely, deleted files off again, and used heavily for Video editing, and as a matter of fact have not seen ANY decline in performance. Funny enough, my AVA System test numbers are actually better than when I first ran them.

KB
 
Can you describe the "sleep bug problem" a bit? First I've heard of it.

mdb said:
I have had good luck with a 2 Intel SSD's (X25 80GB), both in a MacPro and in a MacMini.

I bought a 200GB OWC Mercury Extreme SSD in late Feb 2010. Worked great until one week ago, when it died, a victim apparently of the sleep bug problem.

OWC is unwilling to guarantee destruction of the data on your device if you return it for replacement. This is problematic for business users.

OCZ seems to have better after sale support, with an excellent web forum. We'll give them a try for the replacement of the OWC drive. Hopefully it will be more reliable than the OWC drive.
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mdb said:
OWC is unwilling to guarantee destruction of the data on your device if you return it for replacement. This is problematic for business users.
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Who does offer that kind of guarantee for flash drives? For hard drives a quick trip to powerful magnetic directly impacts the storage media ( even on non working drives). For a flash drive other that physically destroying the flash chips (putting the whole drive in a crusher? Or baking at melting temperatures ? )
 
mdb said:
I have had good luck with a 2 Intel SSD's (X25 80GB), both in a MacPro and in a MacMini.

OWC is unwilling to guarantee destruction of the data on your device if you return it for replacement. This is problematic for business users.

OCZ seems to have better after sale support, with an excellent web forum. We'll give them a try for the replacement of the OWC drive. Hopefully it will be more reliable than the OWC drive.
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I'll give you a guarantee that OCZ will not do this also. However, if you ever do find someplace that will give you a guarantee like you wish, please let me know, because I'd like one also.
 
I get it. You shipped it to them in one piece for an exchange, and you would have liked to know that they took a hammer to it! :p
 
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johnnymg said:
Anyone here use the OCZ vertex 2 SSD in their MP?

The 120GB looks reasonable. ???
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Vertex-Solid-OCZSSD2-1VTX120G/dp/B001NPCTBO/ref=sr_1_3?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285249123&sr=8-3

Would this bracket work with the bottom mount MP trays?
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-3-5-Inch-Adaptor-Bracket-OCZACSSDBRKT2/dp/B002I8MUU0/ref=pd_sim_e_2
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the 120gb is the 1vtx model that is a bit slower. the 2vtx is faster.


the bracket hooks to the ssd via the bottom 4 screw holes and the uses the side holes to hook to the computer thus it does not work in a mac pro. the 4 screw holes on the bottom match a 2.5 inch drive not the mac pro sled 3.5 inch footprint..
 
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philipma1957 said:
the 120gb is the 1vtx model that is a bit slower. the 2vtx is faster.


the bracket hooks to the ssd via the bottom 4 screw holes and the uses the side holes to hook to the computer thus it does not work in a mac pro. the 4 screw holes on the bottom match a 2.5 inch drive not the mac pro sled 3.5 inch footprint..
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Thanks for the heads up on the drive # and adapter.

The 2vtx is the same price as the OWC extremePro so it's not such a great deal after all.

cheers
JohnG
 
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