Mhackintosh blog » kingston ssd now! http://blog.mhackintosh.com My life as an hackintosh owner Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Used Kingston SSD Now! 64GB http://blog.mhackintosh.com/2010/02/used-kingston-ssd-now-64gb-craigslis/ http://blog.mhackintosh.com/2010/02/used-kingston-ssd-now-64gb-craigslis/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:05:28 +0000 iAPX http://blog.mhackintosh.com/?p=324 I just bought an used (3 month old) Kingston SSD Now! 64GB SSD, for $130. It was a great SSD when launched, but for now, it’s under average on write speed, even largely under hard-drive speed, not talking about my RAID-0 2×1TB 7200 rpm system disk, but really actual when talking about read speed, with 220MB/s.

I would like to test a SSD for Mac OS X system, applications, and a bunch of usual files, including Windows and Linux Ubuntu VM, to see how it far compared to hard-drive, especially 2 hard-drives grouped in RAID-0. You have read many many benchmark, I suppose, and me too :-)

I am not equipped to bench it, and anyway it doesn’t interest me. I would like to see if an average (by today metrics) SSD could do a difference in day-to-day use of Mac OS X, and what will be the feeling I have with it, compared to physical hard-drives in RAID-0, on a fast Mhackintosh (4×3.4Ghz, 8GB, GeForce 8800) extensively using firefox, mail, VMware fusion, Parallels, NetBeans (Java-coded tool I use for PHP development), MySQL database and more than that Adobe Lightroom for my pictures as a photographer.

Let’s playyyyyy!!!!! I will come back next week with more than MB/s, a feeling, a human report, maybe some advices!

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