Intel X-25M

Pandobear said:
I guess it depends on how the OS uses the drive, I suspect that the Macbook running Vista will be the same as any PC running Vista. From the articles that I read it was multiple small random writes that kills the OCZ( and other Jmicron based) drives. If the OS does not do lots of random writes then there will be no problems
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It's not just about the OS - it's the nature of the applications that you are running - even without the load placed on the drive by the OS the current MLC drives struggle with multiple different operations involving random read/writes. So even if you used MacOS, were you to try downloading, browsing, and playing music all at the same time you would be in for a nasty suprise according to current reports.
 
cavemanoc said:
It's not just about the OS - it's the nature of the applications that you are running - even without the load placed on the drive by the OS the current MLC drives struggle with multiple different operations involving random read/writes. So even if you used MacOS, were you to try downloading, browsing, and playing music all at the same time you would be in for a nasty suprise according to current reports.
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We'll find out tomorrow. If it's no good it'll go back.
 
cavemanoc said:
The problem is neatly outline in This Article:

If you can, would you mind running a couple of the tests they used - be interested to see if they fare as badly on osX as on PCs
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Those are all Vista tests - what would you like me to try in OS X ?

What I don't understand is why anyone using this drive on Windows has nothing but problems, but with OS X it's fine. All very odd. IF there IS some problem here, I can't feel it !
 
Don't forget this is the v2 as well, the Anandtech review is of the v1. No idea if that has any bearing. The stuttering mentioned in their review is nowhere to be seen here though.
 
cavemanoc said:
You could probably emulate it by downloading a large file, playing a video, and unraring something all at the same time and see what it does?
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Was doing pretty much that yesterday and all was well.

Here's some Xbench results compared to a higher specced MacBook with the stock Apple SSD. THe OCZ is faster in some areas and slower in others. Swings and roundabouts it would appear. Nothing comes close to the Intel though obviously, but for those prices I should hope not ! :eek:

EDIT: Link no worky
 
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Just been playing a HD movie, downloading another and opened about 4 apps in succession and no slow down :)
 
Problem for me is that I use:
* OSX for apps
* Parallels + XP for 7 hours a day
Also Xtools etc

Total space used probably about 60-80GB. At those SLC prices that's 1200+.

So running with something that screws up on windows isn't going be good for me.. besides you could for snowboarding for two weeks on that..
 
NickK said:
Problem for me is that I use:
* OSX for apps
* Parallels + XP for 7 hours a day
Also Xtools etc

Total space used probably about 60-80GB. At those SLC prices that's 1200+.

So running with something that screws up on windows isn't going be good for me.. besides you could for snowboarding for two weeks on that..
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I think windows through parallels would be fine as it's still in OS X but you're right about space. SSD can't compete on £ per GB.
 
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