If you are an avid user of Windows via Boot Camp, you should plan on sticking with one drive.Ĭrucial (aka Micron, aka Lexar) has announced the 256G M225 SSD with READ speeds up to 250MB/s and WRITE speeds up to 200MB/s.I had several issues with external USB drives, Disk Utility and Time Machine on a new MacBook Pro M1 Max with Monterey 12.0.1. However, when we striped two of them inside the Mac Pro, Boot Camp Assistant refused to create the partition. We installed OS X on the 250G OCZ Vertex and had no waking issues during the past two weeks.īoot Camp Assistant has no problem creating a Windows partition and Vista installs/boots just fine. Some sources reported problems with waking from sleep when the SDD was used as the MacBook Pro's primary internal boot drive. Though OCZ has implemented TRIM in the Vertex's firmware, there needs to be either an OS X compatible utility to zap the SSD from time to time or Apple needs to implement TRIM in OS X. To best understand this issue, start by reading the Wikipedia article on TRIM.
I've read there are concerns about the ability of Mac OS X to defragment the SSD on the fly as it does so well with HDDs. Until we have a chance to try the Vertex or any other SSD in the 13" or 15" model, all we can say is that the OCZ Vertex SSD worked problem free in our 17" model with no stinking patches. And if you make the patch, it may not run your third party HDD or SSD at all, according to some reports.
Though we have yet to test an SSD in the 'mid 2009' 13" or 15" MacBook Pro, without EFI Firmware Update 1.7 it will not run faster than 150MB/s.
(I see on Amazon that the price dropped from $850 to $695 this week.) We'll let you know if the screw holes fit. We expect to have a Mac Edition of the Vertex back in our lab by Friday. We ended up using a cardboard spacer to keep it from rattling around. For starters, when we tried to mount the SSD inside our MacBook Pro, the factory mounting screws would not fit. My needs are simple.īut all is not sweetness and light in the Solid State world. (Check with for pricing on the Crucial.) Of course, what I really want is a 500GB SSD for $500 or less. Crucial now has the M225 256G SSD at MSRP of $599. In terms of random transactions per second, the SSD was as much as 36 times faster. Not only did it double the large sustained speed but it quadrupled the small random transfer speed. If you can swallow hard then cough up $700, it will kick the butt of the fastest notebook HDD, the Momentus 7200.4 from Seagate.
The OCZ Vertex 250G SSD makes a sweet upgrade for the unibody MacBook Pro. After reformatting it, the write speeds jumped up to match the retail version, though.) The Apple factory version of the same drive produced lower sustained write speeds - 60MB/s. (NOTE: We posted the results for the retail version of the Seagate 7200.4. HDD 500 inr = Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500G HDD inside the 'mid 2009' MacBook Pro SSD 250 in = OCZ Vertex 250G SSD inside the 'mid 2009' MacBook Pro (17") SSD 250 mp = OCZ Vertex 250G SSD inside the 'early 2009' Mac Pro RED bar indicates fastest performer for a given test We got slightly higher write speeds with smaller test sizes (100MB) but believe this gives you a conservative presentation of the speeds you can expect. QuickBench has a Custom test we set to 1GB test size and averaged 5 iterations. QuickBench has a Random Standard Test that uses small blocks (from 4K to 1024K) to measure random transfer rate. Note the dramatic difference between the SSD and the fastest notebook HDD. DiskTester's random test measures the number of 4K random transactions the disk can make per second.