SSD benchmarks (for those interested)

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Well I recently took the plunge and upgraded my '09 13" MBP to an SSD hard drive, done some comparision benchmarks for anyone who's interested using XBench

Mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro
2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo
4Gb DDR2
Clean install OS X 10.6

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 250Gb 7200RPM disk
Disk Test 53.98
Sequential 123.46
Uncached Write 153.50 94.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 159.26 90.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.40 20.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 192.46 96.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 34.54
Uncached Write 10.99 1.16 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 159.97 51.21 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.59 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 148.00 27.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]


Crucial CT128-M225 (Firmware 1571)
Disk Test 258.03
Sequential 230.28
Uncached Write 267.44 164.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 249.68 141.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 136.76 40.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 432.23 217.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 293.38
Uncached Write 102.41 10.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 453.62 145.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2147.03 15.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 833.82 154.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Raw performance seems to be increased considerably, especially on the random tests which is to be expected with lower seek times on the SSD. Read and write speeds with 256k blocks are about what I was expecting from the drive, overall I'm very impressed.

Real world performance....well launching apps is considerably quicker, especially Aperture/iTunes/iPhoto etc. Main benefit is boot time, previously I was probably waiting anything from 60 - 90 seconds for a cold boot, with the SSD it's under 15.

Still expensive yes, I paid just under £200 for my 128Gb but prices are dropping and the performance is amazing!
 
Thanks for that mate,

Looking to get myself a MBP 13" soon and was thinking of upgrading to an SSD later in the year when the prices should have dropped even more.

By the way, do you get any battery improvement?

Jon
 
To be honest i've not done any battery testing yet, i'd expect better, from bits i've done at work with Dell/HP laptops and SSD i'd expect around a 10-15% improvement over 7200rpm drive
 
Thanks for the quick comparison, I'm debating over getting one for my mac pro.
Main things holding me back are needing a sled which is gonna cost £30 and whether or not I need 64/128GB as I've heard the drive slows down a good amount when it starts to get full.

I don't need 128GB, my current OS drive sits at 50GB and I could clear a few GB off that but if 50/64 causes slow down I'll have to pay for the extra 64GB!
 
If the price of these drop, I might pick one up next year for my MBP. I read somewhere that the battery life is actually shorter using these due to the fact that the hard drive can never be put to sleep. Would like to find out if this is true and if so by how much.

Also, does it run cooler than the conventional hard drive?
 
Thanks for the great summary, thinking of getting that model of MBP at the end of the month as i'll be on the move at lot more, will probably be putting a 128gb ssd in too. As mentioned above, have you noticed any difference in the temperatures at all?
 
Have a look at this: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/Entries/2009/9/2_Crucial_M225_128Gb_SSD.html

I've since put a second hard disk in mine - a 500Gb Seagate 7200. I put that where the normal hard disk is and the SSD in where the DVD drive used to be.

Fantastically fast, and yet I have a bucket of storage. Still get around 4 hours battery too on a late 2008 MBP (I.e. the model before the one with the 7 hour battery).

I've found the Crucial unit doesn't suffer write fatigue anything like as much as the Corsaid I had in there previously.

Still love this video :cool:

 
Thanks for the benchies matey, its exactly the setup i am going for soon, mainly for itunes and iphoto performance :)
 
JAMAL said:
Thanks for the benchies matey, its exactly the setup i am going for soon, mainly for itunes and iphoto performance :)
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No problem, both those apps (and Aperture) launch so much quicker than before...my iPhoto library is around 5Gb, iTunes around 55Gb and Aperture around 5Gb again. All three launched at the same time on the SSD is quicker than just iTunes on the old HDD
 
Disk Test 80.43
Sequential 63.45
Uncached Write 56.21 34.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 51.91 29.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 48.78 14.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 182.14 91.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 109.83
Uncached Write 51.07 5.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 71.10 22.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1463.59 10.37 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 478.80 88.85 MB/sec [256K blocks]

That's mine from a MacBook Air 128GB SSD Model for comparison....some differences there! :eek:
 
Are there a specific list of compatible SSDs? I'm pretty sure i'l be picking up a 13" MBP soon and an SSD is the first thing to go in it. The rest of the spec should handle what i'l be asking of it easily enough but the SSD would be a pretty crucial upgrade for me.
 
Thinking about getting one of these for my MacBook but I don't know whether it supports SATA 300.

My model is: MB881B/A (standard white macbook - early 09).

Also - I read on the Crucial website that there was recently some issues regarding firmware on the Macs, have you been suffering any issues?

EDIT:

Looking at system profiler, I assume this means that my SATA controller is SATA-II and can support the full speeds of these drives:

 
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