New Configuration: Now, with SSD!
I bought an MTRON MSD 3000 32GB SSD drive on eBay for $700, broke apart my RAID 0, and slapped it into my MacBook Pro, replacing the 160GB 5400rpm SATA drive that came stock with the system. I liked the MTRON SSD drive because its specs say that it can sustain 100 MB/sec read and 80 MB/sec write, which is much faster than other units out there. The specs also say that its write endurance is “> 140 years @ 50GB write per day.” Some reviews have stated that it doesn’t do well on Intel hardware, but as you will see, my results showed otherwise.
MTRON MSD 3000 32GB SSD drive I decided to leave in my system the second drive that I installed last year as part of the RAID. It is a 160GB IDE drive installed in a MCE OptiBay Hard Drive adapter. It’s perfect for use as a data drive, mostly for photos and videos — the stuff I accumulate in the field on a daily basis. A notebooks only equipped with a small SSD drive wouldn’t work for me, as it is not practical to have to connect an external drive to actually get something done.
Installation was easy. I popped the old SATA drive out and inserted the new SSD drive. It was a bit difficult to put screws into the small plastic holes in the SSD, which didn’t seem to be threaded. I felt like I was tapping my own screw holes using the screws themselves, which didn’t feel good.
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Conclusion:
Solid-state drives suit my computing style. My newly-configured machine is MUCH, MUCH faster, and by having both a SSD system drive and a large IDE data drive, I get the best of both worlds. I am never going back.
Review completa aqui
http://echeng.com/journal/2008/03/19/macbook-pro-with-mtron-msd-3000-32gb-ssd-drive/