Solid State Drives

jpico · Post by **jpico** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:52 am

Im going to upgrade my macpro 8 core to solid state drives. Looking for recom

mendations on drives, size, speed, and other installation tips or warnings. Your wisdom is greatly appreciated.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:58 am

My only recommendation is what I tell myself about them. Wait until the prices drop a little! HD speed and reliability is not much of an issue for me and I need the space more than I need the speed.

Good luck with that. I'd check the Apple Discussions about this as well.

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:10 pm

from my understanding you probably should not use SSD as a drive medium for anything that gets written and rewritten much like projects.
they are great for boot or samples though.
Like MLC , I am waiting for the prices to come down, I also want to see how reliable SSD is as it's new technology, I have heard some horror stories & I still don't trust enough ,yet.
I will hold off until this has been done a little while longer, proven reliable,sizes increase & prices come down.
just another SSD voyeur at this time.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:17 pm

OWC has some products that look exciting.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If I had a 1970s style major label budget, I'd spend the coke allowance on loading up a MacPro and a MacBook Pro with their SSDs to see just how fast is fast. If...

Till then, I'll wait till capacities increase, prices come down and there's enough of a track record to give me warm fuzzies.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:24 pm

So Mike, in several other posts you made the case that it made little sense to buy a 1 or 2 TB drive when a 3 or 4 TB drive was within reach. I tend to agree. But why on earth or any other plant would you pay between $250-650 for less that 1/2 a TB?

Still way too expensive IMO.

Clearly we agree!!!!

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:39 pm

We do.

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:40 pm

Not to mention, wasting the coke budget for a hd seems incredibly irresponsible!
I just say no lol.

* joking*

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:58 pm

I'm a Pepsi guy.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:01 pm

Coke or Pepsi or not, an SSD Boot Drive is a "cool and tasty" thing. If you keep the boot drive for OS and Apps only, it doesn't need to be very large. Furthering this approach, I noticed today in a Macworld article that Lion allows separating user files from the startup disk without the machinations formerly required...

I hear ya', the storage capacity per dollar ratio is still relatively low for SSD's, but oh the speed!

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:11 pm

I know, but I am not having issues with access time on my drives.

So, duh!

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