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Old Jan 16, 2009 | 07:34 AM
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Anyone using SSD's yet?

Thinking about spending my christmas bonus on a 256gb one for the macbook pro and using my 250gb/5400rpm one as an external backup.

Any thoughts?
 
Old Jan 16, 2009 | 01:27 PM
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Haven't used one of Apple's, but I've been using them for years. Unless your laptop lives in a very unfriendly environment, or you have massively critical data that can't fail, it's kind of a waste of money. A conventional drive with a routine daily backup will provide what amounts to the same data protection for a fraction of the cost.
 
Old Jan 16, 2009 | 01:48 PM
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No yet. But did you you see Crazy123's post from yesterday about the monster machine he built using 4 in a RAID 0 config? His system boots - in full - in 7 seconds.

WOW!
 
Old Jan 16, 2009 | 04:28 PM
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I want one because the battery life on my T61p with the 1920X1200 screen, 4G of RAM is teh suck.

SSD uses way less juice, and maybe I can finally get three hours out of the regular 6 cell battery, instead of the barely 2 hours.
 
Old Jan 16, 2009 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by stuka
I want one because the battery life on my T61p with the 1920X1200 screen, 4G of RAM is teh suck.

SSD uses way less juice, and maybe I can finally get three hours out of the regular 6 cell battery, instead of the barely 2 hours.
From what I've read, the HDD's are about 75-85% as efficiant as SSD's so I wouldnt expect that much of a jump.


Originally Posted by Simba
Haven't used one of Apple's, but I've been using them for years. Unless your laptop lives in a very unfriendly environment, or you have massively critical data that can't fail, it's kind of a waste of money. A conventional drive with a routine daily backup will provide what amounts to the same data protection for a fraction of the cost.
I have read multiple reports that the new intel X-25 drives are increasing speeds and giving as much performance gains as upping the ram....
 
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not yet, im waiting for laptop to crap out, then i'll be getting one of those notebook with an ssd. I just use it to type notes, and browse the internet when im away from desktop.
 
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Originally Posted by alkyoneus
not yet, im waiting for laptop to crap out, then i'll be getting one of those notebook with an ssd. I just use it to type notes, and browse the internet when im away from desktop.
just picked up something for exactly this use.

dell inspiron mini 9 rolling with ubuntu. so far, am not regretting the choice
**coming from a macbook

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Laptop / Netbook
 
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I am waiting until prices drop a little more but on my next MBP I think I will go for it.
 

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