SSD benchmarks (for those interested)

[gobbo]

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!

 

[gobbo]

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

 

[gobbo]

Thanks for the benchies matey, its exactly the setup i am going for soon, mainly for itunes and iphoto performance

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