Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to the Crucial C300 SSD that runs the new SATA III and their thoughts on the drive. Does my Spring 2010 MBP support running SATA III (SATA 6 GB/s)? Or will it be stuck running at SATA II speeds?
Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to the Crucial C300 SSD that runs the new SATA III and their thoughts on the drive. Does my Spring 2010 MBP support running SATA III (SATA 6 GB/s)? Or will it be stuck running at SATA II speeds?
Just out of curiosity, how long have you had it? I'm interested to see how the performance is holding up over time considering that OS X lacks TRIM support.
That benchmark was done the day I installed it (5-28). I haven't run it again recently, but I can't honestly say that I've noticed any slowdowns since then.
Just for comparisons sake, here's the same machine as shipped with 4GB and the 500GB 5400RPM drive.
Xbench: Comparison
It would have to do an awful lot of slowing down to get back there.
Sorry to bust in here, I'm very new to my Macs, actually just got my 13" MBP 2.4GHz C2Duo last week and wondering if this SSD would be supported by my computer? I really like the idea of an SSD over a platter and heads configuation!!
Thank you very much!
Yes, SSD drives are supported. The only area of concern is that OS X doesn't currently support the "TRIM" command, which means that over time performance can degrade until a complete format is done.
Thanks a lot. I've been thinking about picking one of these up myself.
Have you run across anything that states the Samsung drives have TRIM support at the hardware level thus eliminating the need for TRIM support at a software level?
I have not. My understanding of TRIM is that the drive's firmware and the OS must both support it. I haven't heard of a firmware that can do it all itself.