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Hey, Mac Fanbois, I have a question about drives.
Topic Started: Dec 22 2011, 07:54 AM (136 Views)
George K
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The price of SSD's is rapidly falling. Almost to the point where it makes sense to have one as my boot drive. My home folder is about 250 gigs, and my applications are about 100. I could easily trim down that folder by moving my iPhoto library and my iTunes library (about 70 gig each) to another drive.

Would it be worth getting a SSD, putting it into an external (Firewire 800) case and using it as my boot drive?

Would I see an increase in performance?
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They're not falling rapidly enough IMO. But SSD's do bring a nice speed factor to loading times. I've got a Crucial M3 128GB in my Windows 7 system, and use it as the boot drive. If you're tired of waiting for the MAC OS to boot, or tired of your programs taking too long to load, then an SSD is the way to go iffin you want to spend the dough.

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George K
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Oh, my. Was I wrong about falling prices. A half-terabyte drive is north of $800. 240 gigs is about $400. The Mrs. has a Macbook Air - that thing screams, because it has no hard drive, but for that kind of cash....

I'll wait.
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Mark
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The OWC Extreme 6g Pro I the best rated SSD on the market.

Yep! They are still pricey. But worth it if you need the incredible peed boost thy provide.
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Axtremus
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Yes, the SSD drives are screaming fast.

The fastest boot-up and shut-down of Windows 7 I've seen, I see it in a Parallels VM running in a late-2011 15" MacBook Pro equipped with an SSD.

If you're using a laptop, there's not much you can do except to buy a big SSD drive to hold everything in it.

But if you're using a desktop, you can consider something like this:

1. get a small SSD (just big enough to hold your OS and a few favorite apps that you use often), a 60 GB or 120 GB drive will do.

2. put your OS and your favorite app on it, make that your boot drive (make it an internal drive if you don't have eSATA interface if you want the best performance). Making this the boot drive also means putting your OS swap file here, which speed things up every time the OS needs to swap a virtual memory page.

3. Everything else lives on some other high capacity drive(s), which can be external.
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