MBP with Flash Drive upgrade

theheyes · 11 Nov 2007 at 12:43

http://www.ryanblock.com/2007/11/the-first-macbook-pro-with-a-64gb-ssd/

This guy has upgraded his MacBook Pro with a 64GB solid state drive. Now, Solid State drives arent the "Jesus" of new hard drives as currently they offer nowhere near the storage of traditional drives. They are also slower than hard disks at some operations. However, in a mobile environment they offer more robustness, are a lot quieter and cooler, and draw less power.

Just a little sneak peek at what we might be using in a couple of years time. The boot up speed is nice.

WotDa · 11 Nov 2007 at 13:12

Interesting, I was sort of expecting to see the Superdrive taken out and the SSD added there like the raid setup mod rather than using the SSD as the main drive.

siege2 · 28 Dec 2007 at 21:27

Like the Video, I'am upgrading with a new Intel core 2 duo next January, Febuary !
I'am considering putting 2 off 16 GB SATA SSD in the pc on a RAID 0 mode.

Is Overclockers going to stock more at this moment they only have one model listed.

as a second HD setup I'am going to use my original RAID 0 setup I have....

theheyes · 28 Dec 2007 at 22:21

Be interesting to see what sort of I/O speed improvments you'd get over standard disk drives.

siege2 · 28 Dec 2007 at 23:44

yep agree, going to do a HDtach when I get them :-)