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Looking for some SSD reccomendations
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1382644" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>Have used two SSD's from OWC, a Mercury Extreme 3GB and a Mercury Electra 6GB. Both have and do work extremely well, boot time on a Quad Core Mac Pro is seventeen seconds and really flies. The upgraded 1.1 with Intel X5355 has a Geekbench score of 9118 with the SSD, beating the later 3.1 and 4.1 models.</p><p></p><p>Also have used Kingston and G.Skill Falcon drives. The G.Skill failed within four days and the Kingston within six months so OWC for me. One thing when you do get an SSD, OWC technicians strongly recommend doing a clean OS install, and not cloning the drive from a platter hard drive.</p><p></p><p>Sure SSDs are dear but provide the best boot for your buck. Others no doubt will disagree.</p><p></p><p>My current set up uses the Mercury Electra with a Velociraptor drive in Bay 2 ro run SuperDuper backups and Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1382644, member: 42497"] Have used two SSD's from OWC, a Mercury Extreme 3GB and a Mercury Electra 6GB. Both have and do work extremely well, boot time on a Quad Core Mac Pro is seventeen seconds and really flies. The upgraded 1.1 with Intel X5355 has a Geekbench score of 9118 with the SSD, beating the later 3.1 and 4.1 models. Also have used Kingston and G.Skill Falcon drives. The G.Skill failed within four days and the Kingston within six months so OWC for me. One thing when you do get an SSD, OWC technicians strongly recommend doing a clean OS install, and not cloning the drive from a platter hard drive. Sure SSDs are dear but provide the best boot for your buck. Others no doubt will disagree. My current set up uses the Mercury Electra with a Velociraptor drive in Bay 2 ro run SuperDuper backups and Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp. [/QUOTE]
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