Got an SSD - Mushkin Chronos Deluxe
With my MacBook Pro turning a year old and the recent "acquisition" of a MacBook Air to replace my iPad (which was slowly gathering dust), I really started to dislike the spindle driven whinging of the Pro vs the SSD enabled Air.
My local retailer had a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB with £100 off the ticket price (£200 instead of £300)... click, click, buy.
Holy WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT. This thing is incredibles fast.
Average writes 290MB/s with reads of 450MB/s. I _should_ have benched the original HDD (doh) but I know it was a hell of a lot less than that.
Some research before hand indicated that the Chronos Deluxe uses sync toggle NAND and sits in a category with the likes of the OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS (which is a barnstorming SSD from what a friend tells me).
I have kind of sat on the fence with the whole SSD thing for a while. Officially converted. Now need one for the VM store on my server.
My local retailer had a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB with £100 off the ticket price (£200 instead of £300)... click, click, buy.
Holy WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT. This thing is incredibles fast.
Average writes 290MB/s with reads of 450MB/s. I _should_ have benched the original HDD (doh) but I know it was a hell of a lot less than that.
Some research before hand indicated that the Chronos Deluxe uses sync toggle NAND and sits in a category with the likes of the OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS (which is a barnstorming SSD from what a friend tells me).
I have kind of sat on the fence with the whole SSD thing for a while. Officially converted. Now need one for the VM store on my server.
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Either way, it's a massive improvement, eh? I cannot wait until I get an SSD in my desktop. I benched this one and then boxed it back up to give away at Expo. It was very tough going back to my ~65mb/s WD Raptor