512GB Solid State Drive value second hand?

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So I am selling my Macbook Pro and have a blazing fast 512GB Apple branded Toshiba SSD that I want to sell separately as I figure I'll probably get more for it that way.

What's a fair price to ask for a 8 month 512GB SSD :wtf:? 230MB/s read 180MB/s write speed. :twisted:
 
You can probably look at about 50-75% odd of new price. How does the advertised speeds hold up in real life?
 
let me know how much u decide on selling it for, might be tempted to convert my optical drive bay into hdd/ssd bay...
 
Wow that's a big SDD, does it use SATA or a proprietary connector?
 
Sensorei, do you know which chipset it uses? I'm interested to find a 500GB odd SSD that implements hardware encryption.
 
Fudzy said:
Wow that's a big SDD, does it use SATA or a proprietary connector?
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It uses SATA connectors like a normal 2.5" notebook hdd.

Koffiejunkie, it is a Toshiba HG 2 Series 512GB SSD. It is Apple branded as it came with my CTO Macbook Pro.
 
Thanks Ponder. No mention of encryption on either, so it looks like the Sandforce controllers are the only ones that has this feature. I have yet to find a drive that implements it though :(

Wow, the Crucial drives wipe the floor with the rest. I wonder what's the catch? :wtf:
 
Well, let me elaborate. Full disc encryption is a reuirement for work. Hardware encryption is a requirement for my sanity... ;)
 
Yes, but it's software based. I've been down that road - it gets pretty painful after a while.

I am quite interested to see how they implemented it though. In Snow Leopard and earlier, it's for the home directory only, and it's done buy storing the home directory in an encrypted sparsebundle image. It's grossly inefficient. Maybe they've progressed to doing it at a filesystem layer - that might be bearable.

But as it is, I have a Seagate FDE drive, i.e. hardware based full disc encryption - it's pretty difficult to ignore the performance benefits...
 
koffiejunkie said:
Yes, but it's software based. I've been down that road - it gets pretty painful after a while.

I am quite interested to see how they implemented it though. In Snow Leopard and earlier, it's for the home directory only, and it's done buy storing the home directory in an encrypted sparsebundle image. It's grossly inefficient. Maybe they've progressed to doing it at a filesystem layer - that might be bearable.

But as it is, I have a Seagate FDE drive, i.e. hardware based full disc encryption - it's pretty difficult to ignore the performance benefits...
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Try this:

http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/encryption/disk-encryption-for-mac/

Yes it's software based. I don't know how the Mac version performs, but we have thousands of copies deployed on our pc laptops at work.
 
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Sputnik said:
Try this:

http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/encryption/disk-encryption-for-mac/
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Interesting - I didn't know about this one. I'm using SecureDoc:

http://www.winmagic.com/products/full-disk-encryption-for-mac

The reason I have to use it, despite having hardware encryption, is because the Mac's firmware has no way to pass your password to the hard disc. So this add some stuff to the EFI that asks you for your password and key file (if you used one), unlocks the drive and chainloads OSX. The reason I chose SecureDoc over the other options is because it was the only one that offered support for hardware encryption. Maybe the others do, but it's not mentioned anywhere in their documentation.

SecureDoc also allows you to encrypt external drives, which is quite handy. Performance with the FDE drive is a non-issue. In fact, I suspect the FDE drives to be of higher quality in general, because this one performs better than any 7200rpm drive I've had before including Seagate's own 7200.4 drives. The software encryption part performs really well too. Writing a 2GB file to an external 5400rpm FW800 drive gives me around 40MB/s sustained transfer, which is pretty much what I get on an unencryped drive.
 
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