i bought ssd mbp! waiting either ocx vertex or agility 60gb drop below $130, , last week picked vertex $130 ar. got today, spent day setting set up.
swapped out old 320gb 7200rpm disk ssd, , did fresh install of snow leopard. started fine, , installed system updates up-to-date before migrating data over. downloading combo update , itunes took on 2 hours on internet connection, negate time ssd ever save me.
once system up-to-date, used migration assistant move data over. old drive sat in usb enclosure, , transfer process took 30 minutes hour. selected except folders have large files (documents, downloads, music, movies, etc), , left 5gb free on ssd. (i need clean out applications.)
now, left user account no data, had find way link over. tried itunes first, pointing itunes folder on old disk, didn't that, , nothing showed in library. after research how mount folders somewhere else, best thing find create sym link desired location. here's how music folder:and that's it. (warning: rm command delete existing folder because should empty on clean install.) started itunes, , recognized library took few minutes "import" or something. repeated process rest of folders, , shows in /users/matt/whatever if still on single disk. stacks in dock updated themselves, , desktop works seamlessly. still have optibay adapter put hard drive in optical bay, don't expect problems that.code:sudo rm -r /users/matt/music sudo ln -s /volumes/320gb/users/matt/music /users/matt/music
os x crashed on me when went sleep on own after of updates downloaded, , kernel panicked when tried resume safe sleep data, i've put sleep , deep sleep couple times since no problems. mechanical drive in usb enclosure shuts off computer goes sleep (while safesleep data being saved ssd), , assume same thing in optibay. that's because no longer have wait computer finish saving safesleep data before move it.
don't anticipate significant change in battery life since have old drive in optibay. since portion of data still on there, won't able shut off save power either.
computer takes 25 seconds login screen, , 5-10 seconds there. that's enough me. matlab starts in 15 seconds instead of 45 seconds minute on old disk, huge improvement.
attached xbench scores of drive on left, , brand-new on right. write speeds faster, no degradation, , suspect differences within normal variability.
overall i'm extremely happy ssd, , install process went lot smoother expected.
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