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- Your Mac's Specs
- 2012 15" MBP 2.6 i7 GT 650M 16GB RAM/2012 27" iMac 3.4 i7 Radeon HD 6970M 2GB 24GB RAM
So I have wanted to get an SSD for a while, cost is slightly prohibitive as I need atlas 1T of storage, I have a 750gb HDD right now.
Feed your greed for speed by installing SSDs in RAID 0 | PCWorld looks like 2x 512 drives in raid 0 would be the best. I like the idea of keeping my disk drive but I also like the idea of blasting fast speed, faster than modern PCIe MBP speeds.
Whats the absolute fastest/best 512 or 1T drive, in real world use not just read bench specs. The 2012's are STAT III right? 6gb/sec? Are any 480gb or larger drives SLC or are they all MLC with ECC?
I have thought of purchasing a new 15" retina machine and probably will if they include a GT 950M, but a TB drive in those is a lot of money and they only have the faster Mac Pro style PCIe SSD upgrades for the 2012's. As it sits now they only use 4 PCI lanes where the faster drives and Mac Pro uses 8.
Feed your greed for speed by installing SSDs in RAID 0 | PCWorld looks like 2x 512 drives in raid 0 would be the best. I like the idea of keeping my disk drive but I also like the idea of blasting fast speed, faster than modern PCIe MBP speeds.
Whats the absolute fastest/best 512 or 1T drive, in real world use not just read bench specs. The 2012's are STAT III right? 6gb/sec? Are any 480gb or larger drives SLC or are they all MLC with ECC?
I have thought of purchasing a new 15" retina machine and probably will if they include a GT 950M, but a TB drive in those is a lot of money and they only have the faster Mac Pro style PCIe SSD upgrades for the 2012's. As it sits now they only use 4 PCI lanes where the faster drives and Mac Pro uses 8.