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Wishing I had gotten a larger SSD in the beginnig

Lil Chillbil

Lil Chillbil

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So In my mac pro I have a SSD and 3 3tb western digital Hard drives for Tons of on board storage. The SSD is only 160gigs and filled up so fast with my apps that I now am purchasing a 512gig ssd which I really should have installed from the Start, Oh well just another day migrating files and installing Snow leopard :D


But while I'm ranting anybody find any good deals on 512 gig ssds lately that you would like to share?
 
Let me know if you come across a 1TB for under 500.00 - I sure would love to replace these aging 7200 SATA drives.

Lil Chillbil said:
So In my mac pro I have a SSD and 3 3tb western digital Hard drives for Tons of on board storage. The SSD is only 160gigs and filled up so fast with my apps that I now am purchasing a 512gig ssd which I really should have installed from the Start, Oh well just another day migrating files and installing Snow leopard :D


But while I'm ranting anybody find any good deals on 512 gig ssds lately that you would like to share?
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Lil Chillbil said:
So In my mac pro I have a SSD and 3 3tb western digital Hard drives for Tons of on board storage. The SSD is only 160gigs and filled up so fast with my apps that I now am purchasing a 512gig ssd which I really should have installed from the Start, Oh well just another day migrating files and installing Snow leopard :D


But while I'm ranting anybody find any good deals on 512 gig ssds lately that you would like to share?
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Hard to beat the price of the Crucial M4 at $400 for 512GB.
 
Interesting, as I have a Mac Pro 3,1 w/12GB RAM using only an 80GB SSD. I have tons of apps and still have about 8GB free. All my user data is on another SSD or on multiple HDDs.

Are you sure you're not using the SSD for any user data? Also, as I understand it, the boot drive has space allocated for RAM backup used during sleep. So if you have a ton of RAM that's another use that you can influence.
 
tamvly said:
Interesting, as I have a Mac Pro 3,1 w/12GB RAM using only an 80GB SSD. I have tons of apps and still have about 8GB free. All my user data is on another SSD or on multiple HDDs.

Are you sure you're not using the SSD for any user data? Also, as I understand it, the boot drive has space allocated for RAM backup used during sleep. So if you have a ton of RAM that's another use that you can influence.
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8gb is not good, that more than 90% full. Also this ssd must hold a handfull of apps and tons of games. And when I am working on a big project I like to have it all on a ssd while I am editing. It only moves onto the 9tb of disk space when its in archive mode so I have a huge project coming up and I know it will max out this 160gig ssd so I am looking for something that I won't even have to think about filling up with apps and my current projects
 
Lil Chillbil said:
So In my mac pro I have a SSD and 3 3tb western digital Hard drives for Tons of on board storage. The SSD is only 160gigs and filled up so fast with my apps that I now am purchasing a 512gig ssd which I really should have installed from the Start, Oh well just another day migrating files and installing Snow leopard :D


But while I'm ranting anybody find any good deals on 512 gig ssds lately that you would like to share?
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You could save a lot of time by cloning the smaller SSD to the larger one, rather than reinstalling everything.
 
Yeah, I started out with a 32GB SSD. I was using a SSD I bought some 5 years ago (back in 2008 this was like $600).

Anyways after getting rid of that, I moved to 480GB. Recently just switched to a new SSD after finding out about the a Velocity X2 adapter.
 
VirtualRain said:
Hard to beat the price of the Crucial M4 at $400 for 512GB.
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Even less on eBay, check it out. For a new one, that is.

I prefer Samsung 830/840 Pro though.

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Lil Chillbil said:
So In my mac pro I have a SSD and 3 3tb western digital Hard drives for Tons of on board storage. The SSD is only 160gigs and filled up so fast with my apps that I now am purchasing a 512gig ssd which I really should have installed from the Start, Oh well just another day migrating files and installing Snow leopard :D


But while I'm ranting anybody find any good deals on 512 gig ssds lately that you would like to share?
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You can save some space by removing the sleep image, etc.
 
Tesselator said:
Or setup your own fusion-drive with 64GB ($70) + 3TB ($125)
http://macperformanceguide.com/fusion-part1.html
http://blog.macsales.com/15617-creating-your-own-fusion-drive


YouTube: video
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No Thanks.

ALL data in a hybrid should be written to the platters, and it should be possible to access the mechanical part as a normal drive if there is a problem with the SSD part.

Also, NO software should be involved in hybridisation, and it should continue to work even if the system crashes.

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Tesselator said:
Hardly hardly! SSDs are 2.5" and zero RPM. Wow, they must be really terrible! :p
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SSDs don't need to access platters.
 
cube said:
No Thanks.

ALL data in a hybrid should be written to the platters, and it should be possible to access the mechanical part as a normal drive if there is a problem with the SSD part.

Also, NO software should be involved in hybridisation, and it should continue to work even if the system crashes.
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That seems to be an arbitrary opinion which make no sense at all.


SSDs don't need to access platters.
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Really? Say it isn't so... :p
 
cube said:
It is not arbitrary and it makes sense. You just have to think beyond the RDF.
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I might make sense to someone who doesn't know anything about hybrid drives. Otherwise, no, sorry... it's out there past Saturn somewhere...

RDF factors aren't even fractionally relevant here.
 
Tesselator said:
I might make sense to someone who doesn't know anything about hybrid drives. Otherwise, no, sorry... it's out there past Saturn somewhere...

RDF factors aren't even fractionally relevant here.
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Well, I have happily used both generations of Momentus XT and it makes sense to me.
 
Crazy Badger said:
+1 for the Crucial M4 - have a 512GB one in my iMac and no problems at all
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Just upgraded the 2007 MBP to the Crucial M4 and I'll totally be able to squeeze a little more life out of that baby. I've been using it as a makeshift "desktop" at the offices I freelance at. It's so fast compared to what it was, almost as fast as my MBA!
 
Short little blips are great on those hybrids if you need to only open your favorite apps fast. You need way beyond 8GB to actually act like a real SSD. The performance drop off of say a 20-40GB file transfer will be evident. Smoke and mirrors. Great for cheapskate that can't cobble their own together. I'd rather fusion drive a 128GB+ to a larger drive. You still will get the drop off but much later.
 
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