Ok, so I haven’t posted on this subject for a few weeks. Its crazy busy!
Anyway, Part 4!
Now we are talking Solid State Drives (SSD for short), which has taken me ages to find the best one for me. I have looked all over the internet and found one going cheap on the PC World site. If I am honest, I wasn’t sure what i was looking for. I was looking for cheap SSDs with the same read and write speed however, after many discussions with friends, I decided to go for a high read and low write speed. Why??? Because the time it takes to write wasn’t an issue for me, I just wanted a drive to speed up my machine and do things at my pace. So this is it –
PNY Optima 2.5″ Internal SSD – 120 GB
Boasting low power consumption alongside high performance storage, the 120gb PNY Optima 2.5″ Internal SSD is the ideal upgrade for my MacPro.
Not only does the Optima SSD allow me to easily store data, it also helps to speed up my MacPro so I can achieve even more. It’s flash-based storage has no moving parts, which means there’s less wear and tear on the drive, no matter how much I use it. It should let the MacPro start up in less than 60 seconds (I am yet to confirm this).
Type | SSD |
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Capacity | 120 GB |
Interface | SATA III |
Form factor / Drive size | 2.5″ |
Read / Write speed | – Read: 400 MB/s – Write: 160 MB/s |
Other features | – 128-bit AES-compliant – 1 million hours MTBF |
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System requirements | – Serial ATA Fully compliant with Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0. Fully compliant with ATA/ATAPI-8 Standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ) – Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit/64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit, Linux, Mac OS X – Power requirements : Standard SATA Power Connector |
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Dimensions | 100 x 70 x 10 mm (H x W x D) |
Weight | 77 g |
Manufacturer’s guarantee | 3 years |
As you can see not the best write speed but considering my budget of £40.00 I did well. I also had to pick myself up a IcyBox due to the SSD size and the MacPro sleds!
£15.00 on Amazon from Maplin. So £55.00 all in, job done.
Playing devils advocate, I expect I could have found a better deal but that is something which will always happen. Im just glad the SSD is in, TimeMachine did its job by updating the OS back to the new dive and all within 10mins!
In regards to benchmarking, I used Geekbench and scored 5033 on a Multi-Core score. By the looks of it thats not half bad!
So thats the most recent change I have made, comments welcome!
Ciao
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