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Mac Pro 3,1 SSD

Kai.Def

Kai.Def

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Mar 3, 2011
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Torn between Intel 320, Owc SSD or possibly crucial m4.

I use my mac primarily for audio applications. Size; anything from 120gb upwards should be ok I guess. I aim to install the application data onto the SSD & the samples/other audio data on regular HD's.

Any recommendations / thoughts more than appreciated,

Thanks
Kai
 
I'm going to say get the OWC. He's going to say "Get the Intel". They may say "Choice is obvious, get the Crucial".
I like having built in garbage collection without TRIM so I went Sandforce. So far so good.
 
thanks derbothaus you could have not paraphrased me better.

Anyone else'd like to add a sincere answer please
 
I went with an OCZ Vertex 2 - same drive, different brand (maybe different firmware?). Performance has been stellar. At the time, it offered price/performance that could not be beat. Possibly still true, as the next generation of drives has driven prices down on the Vertex 2s.
 
During the Postville G2 times (i.e. last year) Intel was the only manufacturer which did not suffer a massive performance drop after some SSD usage and disk getting fuller (according to various tests floating around, e.g. Anandtech iirc).

So Intel was slower, but kept performance, while others were faster in the beginning, but eventually dropped (partly way) below Intel. Sandforce controllers have been especially infamous in that department (and even more so on the Mac without TRIM).

Situation may have changed, but i'd try to do some research in that direction...

May also be helpful to find out if OWC is simply rebranding another manufacturer or if they have a genuine development done on their own.
 
Kai.Def said:
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Torn between Intel 320, Owc SSD or possibly crucial m4.

I use my mac primarily for audio applications. Size; anything from 120gb upwards should be ok I guess. I aim to install the application data onto the SSD & the samples/other audio data on regular HD's.

Any recommendations / thoughts more than appreciated,

Thanks
Kai
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I just bought an 80Gb Intel 320 for my MacBook Pro for live audio performance, composition, production, and some live VJing. It's pretty bloody fast, even though it's running through a 1.5Gbps SATA-I link. You can enable TRIM using that enabler that's floating about on these forums, and there are guides a la t'interweb for configuring OS X for SSDs.
 
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Neodym said:
Draeconis said:
guides a la t'interweb for configuring OS X for SSDs.
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Have a link?
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http://poller.se/2010/08/optimizing-mac-os-x-for-ssd-drives/
 
Neodym said:
During the Postville G2 times (i.e. last year) Intel was the only manufacturer which did not suffer a massive performance drop after some SSD usage and disk getting fuller (according to various tests floating around, e.g. Anandtech iirc).

So Intel was slower, but kept performance, while others were faster in the beginning, but eventually dropped (partly way) below Intel. Sandforce controllers have been especially infamous in that department (and even more so on the Mac without TRIM).

Situation may have changed, but i'd try to do some research in that direction...

May also be helpful to find out if OWC is simply rebranding another manufacturer or if they have a genuine development done on their own.
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OWC is rebranding Sandforce. I thought Anandtech did benching and found that the Sandforce garbage collection kept things under control? Either way, the wizards on this forum have enabled TRIM for non- branded drives, anyway.
 
Einz said:
Price doesn't matter, OWC's new PCI SSD.
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The high numbers in transfer speed are only reached by running two SSD's on the same PCB as Raid-0 (which increases the risk for data loss). I also seem to vaguely remember some users reporting problems with those drives.
 
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