Hotrod Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Hi all Some of you might remember me when I purchased my Corsair X-64 which suddenly vanished from the system / BIOS on my old Asus G1S Windows 7 laptop which has now gone to heaven due to the GPU failing on the board. I then returned my Corsair X-64 and upgraded to the X-128. Well I purchased my first ever MacBook Pro 13" (2010) model and despite it coming with a stock standard 320GB 5400 RPM drive, I thought I would put my Corsair X-128 SSD in the Mac. NOTE: I put my main frequently used applications on my SSD, and leave other files on an external USB drive. Before installation I transferred the platter based data via the Disk Utility to the newly formatted Corsair X-128 - all went well. I then installed the Corsair X-128 in my MacBook Pro 13" (2010) with Adobe Illustrator / Adobe Lightroom / Office Mac 2011 plus my other apps as well, and low and behold the MacBook Pro 13" booted up everything in 3 seconds - I was gobsmacked. Shutdown occurs in 1 second :) Once you see this massive speed difference, you really don't want to go back to platter based drives. As a friend said to me use SSD for your primary data, and use platter-based storage for backup data plus its more economical. Currently there is still a massive void between capacity vs speed vs cost. Admittedly, my same drive for some unknown reason has actually increased in cost by almost AU$ 100 since I purchased mine in September 2009. BTW my MacBook Pro System Information indicates TRIM is not available - TRIM Support: No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 18, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 18, 2010 Apple does not support TRIM at this time only Windows 7 or newer support that feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrod Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Apple does not support TRIM at this time only Windows 7 or newer support that feature. I no longer have this X-64 drive as when the drive wouldn't appear I sent it back and upgraded to the X-128, and this was over a year ago. My previous post was questioning why this is still occurring with the X-64's and X-32's - why are these suddenly dying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 19, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 19, 2010 I am not sure what you are referring to, there have been some a small % that have failed but its not beyond what I would call expected failures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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