Sign up with GoogleToday I received the kit (160GB Intel X-25M Gen2 SSD) and the Mac Pro adapter mounting bracket. Installed the drive and used Clone Carbon Copy (Donationware) to copy my Mac OSX Leopard partition across to the drive, after Drive Genius refused to SHRINK the partition because it could not defrag my 350GB Macintosh HD partition to allow it to copy the 110GB of OS files and applications to the 160GB Intel SSD.
The take - well the 4 drives still take a few seconds to initialise, I haven't tried without the other 3 Drives - I have a WD 1TB, Hitachi 1TB and Samsung 1TB with the Intel X25M SSD. However, once the drives initialise the boot up process takes 2 sec for the blue screen, 2 sec for the white screen and then Mac OSX starts up (desktop) and it's fully loaded immediately - in less than 1 sec - it loads QuickSilver, Adobe Bridge, the iBurst applet, and a few other things as well as the Mac OSX desktop.
Final Cut Studio 2 loads up quite fast but not really that much faster, I have lots of plugins and they enumerate and while the process is faster it is still not instantaneous. My Mac OSX partition is about 110GB leaving me about 46GB free on the SSD.
Overall, the drives are still expensive, they are small - 160GB is not much - and the benefits are mostly at system start up, shut down and program start up. However, once you get your system up and running, because you can't do much with 160GB you're still editing and swapping on a 7200RPM and there are no benefits after that unless you're low on RAM and your application has to load menus or plugins and with machines with easily over 6GB these days, that isn't so common.
Sourced from MaxUpgrades.com and I got a free upgrade to the Gen2 drive too
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The take - well the 4 drives still take a few seconds to initialise, I haven't tried without the other 3 Drives - I have a WD 1TB, Hitachi 1TB and Samsung 1TB with the Intel X25M SSD. However, once the drives initialise the boot up process takes 2 sec for the blue screen, 2 sec for the white screen and then Mac OSX starts up (desktop) and it's fully loaded immediately - in less than 1 sec - it loads QuickSilver, Adobe Bridge, the iBurst applet, and a few other things as well as the Mac OSX desktop.
Final Cut Studio 2 loads up quite fast but not really that much faster, I have lots of plugins and they enumerate and while the process is faster it is still not instantaneous. My Mac OSX partition is about 110GB leaving me about 46GB free on the SSD.
Overall, the drives are still expensive, they are small - 160GB is not much - and the benefits are mostly at system start up, shut down and program start up. However, once you get your system up and running, because you can't do much with 160GB you're still editing and swapping on a 7200RPM and there are no benefits after that unless you're low on RAM and your application has to load menus or plugins and with machines with easily over 6GB these days, that isn't so common.
Sourced from MaxUpgrades.com and I got a free upgrade to the Gen2 drive too
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