[)roi(];11272859 said:
Samsung were kind enough to supply a USB kit to use the drive externally so I've started the process. I think I'll leave my user folder on the old drive as well as everything else I had planned.
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Samsung were kind enough to supply a USB kit to use the drive externally so I've started the process. I think I'll leave my user folder on the old drive as well as everything else I had planned.
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Good luck; you're going to be very happy with the difference an SSD can make if you contain your IO processing to the SSD.
For example: Processing your photos on the SSD using Photoshop (or your alternative) will speed up most retouching processes -- adjust your workflow to offload only after processing.
d0b33
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damn, cant believe I ran my SSD without trim for almost a year. Just enabled it now but don't think I've done much harm though, SSDs are a bit more intelligent at the low level since I have a 3 year warranty and that excludes trim.
Damn, not a single torx driver in the house. I'll have to wait until morning to install it and the caddy for the hybrid hdd.
The next write over that area will be slow, thereafter with trim enabled it will be back to normal (fast).
d0b33
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[)roi(];11275693 said:
Yes performance wise I'll see a small boost.
No worries, just trying to allay any concerns about not having trim turned on.
Anyway with the way HFS stripes data to avoid fragmentation, you wouldn't have seen any degradation; that assumes of course you don't regularly move large volumes of data on and off the drive, or you don't keep your general usage above 80%.
Either way turning on trim is the solution.
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xera
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Totally worth it. Worlds apart... My only regret was not having done it sooner!
xera
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I'm still on the fence tbh.
What are you going to be using it for?
I actually would have paid more to get rid of my 5400rpm internal hdd slowness issues. it got to 1.5min to boot, ssd takes less than 15 seconds, its like you blink, and its on.. office and mac office loads in under .5 second first time.. thereafter it's instantaneous. Same with other apps. But you knew that already..
I'm still on the fence tbh.
Not want I want to hear!
Getting some extra 'pocket-money funds' in within the next few months - about R7k... Am seriously looking at either going the dual route, i.e. keeping my current 500GB in the optical drive c/o data-doubler, and putting a 250gb SSD in the main bay... BUT - have seen a couple of US sites warning against the reliability of having the HDD in the external...
Benefit to the above, is that I would still have some cash left over to get that improved monitor/ATV3/iPod that I've been toying with purchasing...
OR - I could go the whole hog and buy a 500GB (or maybe stretch up to a 700gb) Sammy 840 EVO - and forfeit all the other little niceties, but then keep the optical - and enjoy the benefits of increased/similar storage, but at SSD speeds....
Decisions, decisions. Please help.
I went for the Hybrid HDD of Seagate. I needed more space (1TB), but also some speed on the regular things I do. If you are busy with general working stuff, booting up, surfing, editing documents etc., it is damn fast. It takes a knock in speed when you hit normal copy from externals. But it doesn't really matter to me, because most external hard drives are also limited in speed.
Photography and associated apps.
I'm not totally displeased - I just hoped the write speeds would be close to the read speeds.
I put my ssd in the optical bay - for one reason Apple's sudden motion sensor reportedly works only works in the HDD bay and for a second reason - I'm lazy…
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xera
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Not want I want to hear!
Getting some extra 'pocket-money funds' in within the next few months - about R7k... Am seriously looking at either going the dual route, i.e. keeping my current 500GB in the optical drive c/o data-doubler, and putting a 250gb SSD in the main bay... BUT - have seen a couple of US sites warning against the reliability of having the HDD in the external...
Benefit to the above, is that I would still have some cash left over to get that improved monitor/ATV3/iPod that I've been toying with purchasing...
OR - I could go the whole hog and buy a 500GB (or maybe stretch up to a 700gb) Sammy 840 EVO - and forfeit all the other little niceties, but then keep the optical - and enjoy the benefits of increased/similar storage, but at SSD speeds....
Decisions, decisions. Please help.
Personally, I don't like hdd's at all in laptops, for portability reasons. I've already had one break from using it in bed. I was always gentle... but it seems hdd's can't handle that kind of action. I was even told by an apple technician to put my MBP to sleep before moving it :wtf:
Mine gets jostled, a lot and barring one minor incident - my laptop was struck by a cricket ball (tremendous 6 btw) - I've not had any drive failures.
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xera
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Well, all I know is that it became terribly slow, and Disk Utility was unable to repair it. Then apple tech verified that it was corrupt, and replaced it.