Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2
This unit was installed on my current 13 "MacBook Pro and I've had great results after 6 months No hang ups.; No problem to be in and out of sleep; Everything is so much faster startup less than 30 seconds; Firefox opens almost immediately; Mac is loaded with it; Repair Disk Utility is allowed to work in less than a minute; Multi-tasking is smooth. snappiness thing together before I recommend that friends must be open to ridicule in every single app in My dock at once (most browsers, CS-3, the elimination.
All the iLife, LibreOffice). In the old HDD, I could not load all the time, I have not had a windmill. Even if my site will be loadedfaster. I noticed that my system was back up to speed on an external hard drive via FireWire 800, and rip my DVD is about 15% faster.
Often I see a lot of people say that SSD is a better battery life. I noticed a change almost no real-world applications. But I'm sure there are some possible differences. Do not expect the battery to change drastically, though. My computer is very quiet. (And with less vibration), a very good thing when I watch movies late at night.
M4 is a selling point for a three year warranty and the fact that it is a SATA III (which supports my MacBook Pro; Not sure about earlier versions) and more to help increase the speed. Its predecessor - C300 - is considered very important, and I was lucky with that, I'm sure this is a good buy.
About the firmware of the M4:.I bought this while running OS 10.6.8 and Rev 0001 firmware, I have a problem at all. But in the end will be Rev 0002 Rev 0009, not long after, that I have adapted well, and it takes about five months, so that's what most of my comments are based on. The speed difference is the use of standard software and firmware Rev 0009 and earlier. The difference between the real world may be something else.To update the firmware you just downloaded from the website materials, burn them to CD and boot from the CD. It 's all very simple.
The TRIM:.As I was running the Snow Leopard 10.6.8, TRIM has been identified as disabled.I heard it is because Apple branded SSD, but only for the software floating around to support the TRIM TRIM I chose not to run the software because I did not know what the developers. But it would be perfectly fine. I ended up upgrading to Lion 10.7 (10.7.3 hour), and TRIM is still listed as disabled. Someone in the comments below about the discovery "opens mactrast cut" and follow the instructions to activate the TRIM I followed the instructions on the site and now TRIM TRIM support is essential. for leveling and to prevent decrease in overtime, speed and direction that takes all of two minutes, so you may want to follow.
Optimize your SSD: I do not see many things that will make a difference. The first thing I did was disable the motion immediately. I also went into the field of energy saving and closing. "Put the hard disk to sleep when possible" and then I repaired disk permissions and verify disk in Disk Utility for the last time. I heard you disable Spotlight, but I use it, so I decided against it.
In Windows 7 and Bootcamp: Some people have luck with Winclone to copy from your Windows 7 partition Bootcamp, I had no luck. But I'm not too worried because I do not want to give up to 20GB of space (the size of the Boot Camp Assistant helps a little ') for my OS and really do not want to use. This is not a problem with the SSD, but thought I'd mention that.
The average speed is approximately 12 hours per day. Description For those looking for a Macbook Pro.Results 443.78.Information systems.Xbench Version 1.3.System Version 10.7.3 (11D50b).8192 MB of physical RAM.The MacBookPro8, 1.The type of unit M4-CT256M4SSD2.Disk Test 443.78.272.50 respectively.uncached Write 465.35 285.72 MB / sec [4K blocks].uncached Write 444.25 251.35 MB / sec [256K blog].uncached Read 112.01 32.78 MB / sec [4K blocks].uncached Read 740.20 372.02 MB / sec [256K blog].Random 1,194.66.uncached write 1,095.88 116.01 MB / sec [4K blocks].uncached Write 816.10 261.26 MB / sec [256K blog].uncached read 2,098.55 14.87 MB / sec [4K blocks].uncached read 1,362.67 252.85 MB / sec [256K blog].
