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SSD installed, Underwhelmed

drewsof07

drewsof07

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I upgraded my MBP with a 256g Crucial SSD last year and saw immediate results in the responsiveness of the OS and Applications. Since similarly upgrading my 2010 Mac Pro to a 128g Crucial SSD about a month ago, I have yet to notice a significant performance boost aside from faster file transfers. It seems that each time I go to use the machine, all my drives must spin up before apps will launch or finder will open. I have disabled "Put hard disks to sleep" to no avail. I originally upgraded the RAM to 10GB, so I know there should be no need for writing to the disk. Any suggestions, aside from removing all the secondary drives? :eek:

With this machine I have the following volumes:

Crucial 128GB SSD OS X Boot (Bay 1)
Original 1TB WD Caviar (Bay 2)
Windows 7 Boot Seagate 320gb (Bay 3)
Media Drive 1.5TB Seagate (Bay 4)

Attached via FW800:
LaCie 1TB - Archived Documents, images, other non-program files
4TB RAID - Redundant Time Machine backup
 
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I don't have this problem with my disks. They stay awake or they do not need to be accessed for general system operation. Something else must be going on. Remove anything networked or "off" the main SATAII backplane. See if that helps. Get rid of the LaCie and the RAID for the time being and see if that helps.
 
I am running a 2010 Q2.8 32GB 1333 RAM (At 1066 obviously)

Crucial M4 128 in Sled for OS Lion

Screaming

other 3 sleds are 2TB WD's - no delays caused by them when not accessing them
 
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