Retina MacBook Pro Uses SSD

WuMyster · 10 Jul 2013 at 15:44

I'm interested in the retina MacBook Pro and I realise that there is no option to use a hard drive. It's understandable since it's so slim but surely this means I'm screwed once I've done all the writes to the SSD?
By the time that happens, My warranty will have finished and I'll be back at square one using a terrible laptop (if I can call it that) for my study's.

Is there a solution to this?

tom_e · 10 Jul 2013 at 15:52

Even with decent usage an SSD will still last a long time, the system will probably be totally obsolete before the SSD fails.
If somehow you do wear the drive out then you can just stick another SSD in to replace it, or if it's a standard SSD and not and mSATA one you could just replace it with a mech drive.

WuMyster · 10 Jul 2013 at 15:55

And how long would that be? With my Sammy pro in my desktop, with light use I do 30 - 50GB a day. That's with the help of HDDs doing most of the writing.
With the MBP, I'll be doing some video editing as well.

tom_e · 10 Jul 2013 at 15:59

http://ef.gy/statistics:ssd-write-endurance that should help explain, but the general jist is that even at SATA 3's maximum throughput of 6Gb/s continuously you would still get a few years out of one.

MagicBoy · 10 Jul 2013 at 16:01

30-50GB writes a day? :eek:

What you doing with it?

MacBook Air/Retinas use non-standard format SSDs. There's only a couple of vendors that make replacements for the current form factor. The latest Haswell Air uses a new PCI-E type that's different again. Same will likely be used in a Haswell retina model.

WuMyster · 10 Jul 2013 at 16:03

Yeah I'm currently waiting for a Haswell model as the battery life is something that interests me.
I do quite a bit of gaming and video editing. The games and editing software are stored on the SSD and all footage is on HDD's.
the samsung program is showing the 30-50GB writes each day.