So to save a $100. You are going to use a hack, take the risk of voiding the warranty, give up the use of firmware that was designed to work with the OS, has no better performance, actually might have less performance depending on the drive, and have no firmware updates for a measly $100?
Still no answer.
Of course i'd remove the drive and if i have to take in my machine to get serviced by Apple THAT MUCH, Apple just lost me as a consumer.
One time and they lose you as a customer? Who said anything about getting your machine serviced that much?
Because there is no NEED to update them. Not because you can't. And yes, YOU CAN.
When Crucial released their update to the m4 for the xxxxx hour fail timer, guess what? It applied to any Mac that was using the m4 as well. Firmware are not necessarily not OS specific, especially if the update has nothing to do with the OS and more over the memory controller on the ssd.
Really no need to update them? A drive doesn't need to take advantage in optimizations in the OS. Since when? If OSX updates the OS to take advantage of a new feature where flash storage is concerned, which a third party drive cannot do. That isn't important?
Sorry you are wrong on that one. The Crucial M4 is the only, let me repeat the only drive to have firmware that updates via OSX. And no crucial cannot have firmware updates to work with the OS like a Apple SSD can.
Actually it is that easy. I don't know what to say, if you think a Mac Mini is hard to take apart, you need to spend some time in the custom PC market.
Every time you need to take in your mac, taking a drive out of a Mac mini is that easy. No it's not. I can do it in less than 10min. You assume too much. I did enough of them. But for you one time person who never did it before it can be a daunting task. Let alone to do it every time your machine needs serviced. That notion i absurd.
OWC Skill Level: "Involved"
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/mac_mini2011_hd_m/
Saving...MONEY? Money that can go towards a better cause?
I know this is a mac forum and I shouldn't expect better, but you sound like the average consumer that is willing to blow $1478874823723432 on anything shiny that Apple throws out and not even blink to reconsider another option.
Give me a break. Didn't I just say I have installed numerious SSD's in Mini's. So many that I can't even count? Pay attention much?
I am frugal as they come being a business owner. I can buy what ever I want for my business, but chose to do them my self. Partly because i like tinkering around also and it saved me money. So I would stop assuming so much, it seems you like to do that.
I only do something or save money when it makes sense. Not 'just because'. And no $100 is not enough reason to add my own SSD. Especially when having to possibly void the warranty, have no firmware updates, no native trim support, etc.
No it doesn't make sense and is not very smart. No matter how you spin it.
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Once again, WRONG!
From the article. Even Anand agrees with me.
How does the Apple SM512E stack up to Samsung's reference PM830 and other modern SSDs? I should note that we're forced to test the SM512E in a different state than we do normal drives (I lack the appropriate adapter to get the SM512E working on my SSD testbed), so the results are likely a bit lower than they would be otherwise.
Lending further credibility to the theory that Apple tweaked Samsung's firmware for more client focused performance is the very solid showing in our sequential tests. With sufficient random IO performance, client workloads are easily bound by sequential IO - the reason being that client applications still operate under the assumption the user has a mechanical drive, which at best can deliver a couple MB/s of random IO performance.
Overall I'm very pleased with Apple's PM830 based SSD in the Retina Display MacBook Pro. I am curious to see how the Toshiba alternative performs, as well as how the various configurations used in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro fare. For the first time since Apple's use of solid state storage in Macs, there's no longer a performance reason to swap in a third party SSD.
"For the first time since Apple's use of solid state storage in Macs, there's no longer a performance reason to swap in a third party SSD."
I think he knows a little more than you about SSD's.
You argument is weak and makes little sense. Good luck saving $100 and giving up custom firmware, no performance gains, Trim support, and possible voiding your warranty. All for the grand total of $100.
Smart decision.
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Not via OSX you didn't. You did it via boot. Nor does trim work via OSX, but via a trim hack.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1408327/
