#750GB SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO UPDATE#
#750GB SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO UPGRADE#

This compares to the pathetic 30-60MB/s of a mechanical laptop hard drive! (These are peak values and in reality a good SSD will sustain about half under normal use).

#750GB SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO UPDATE#

With the latest firmware update it does 550MB/s read speeds and 520MB/s write speeds. It even slightly outperforms the Vertex 3. OCZ’s Vertex 3 is the best known performance leader in SSDs right now and usually cheaper than the Kingston HyperX but I went for the Kingston since I found it for a very good price on Amazon in the UK and it is said to be slightly more reliable for long term use. OWC Extreme 6G drives are not very common in the UK and Europe at all but you can order from the US. For a premium on price and lower availability you can get a drive from one of these companies and it will perform far better than the more common ones by Intel, Crucial, etc. The companies blazing a performance trail with SSDs are OCZ, OWC (Other World Computers) and Kingston. SSD memory modules come in two flavours – asynchronous and synchronous. Synchronous is the newer type and they’re far faster. Asynchronous memory is more readily available and cheaper.

Most of the current drives by Crucial, Samsung and Intel are rated around that.

#750GB SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO UPGRADE#

It is still a very worthwhile upgrade as speed will still be in a different league to a mechanical hard drive.Ī middle of the road 6G drive can do write speeds of 250MB/s peak. (SATA III is in the latest MacBook Pros, SATA 2 in older ones – check!). If it has the older SATA 2 interface only, your stark choice is to either upgrade the entire main board or settle for a cheaper 3G SSD. You will need good performance in both senses for video editing.įirst determine if your machine has SATA 2 or 3. Especially when it comes to write speeds under heavy workloads.

Not all 6G drives are equal, far from it. What are the best drives? It essentially comes down to two things – firmware support and the type of memory modules in use. For a start they are a lot more expensive than an equivalent mechanical hard drive of the same price so it is worth being discerning with your choice of one. Apple did this for supply reasons as well as cost so they have a good excuse, but it still sucks. Despite having a quad core model I was still getting pretty shoddy performance in Premiere Pro CS5.5 with Apple’s default configuration of 4GB of RAM and a 750GB 5400RPM hard drive on occasions.Īlthough the processor is an absolute beast, it isn’t coupled to the RAM and disk it really deserves. Like FCPX Apple shipped their 2011 MacBook Pro models somewhat under-specced for video editing. Get the Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD upgrade kit brand new on eBay for $529

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