i want two of these
OWC OWCSSDEX3G960 960GB Mercury Electra MAX 3G SSD... in stock at OWC
It not as fast as some SSD's but it's big

Or this: OWC SSDPHW2R240 240GB Mercury Accelsior PCI Express... in stock at OWC is what I'm starting to think about since it (claims) would beat the speed on the SSD drives I use now.

That cost more than my laptop:(

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Just do a quick serach for OCZ SSDs on the amazon ratings and you know better...

Yes!!

I'm really glad to see someone posted about this.

The Accelsior is pretty close to the best most people could realistically get.

And believe me, the numbers OWC list on their site as far as speed are 100% reflective of real-world use. And the performance and reliability are simply high-end, top notch!

Furthermore, they've always made over-provisioning a priority and even list the over-provisioning specs for all their SSDs. If you don't know, over-provisioning in an SSD is a term used for protecting the SSD from "performance degradation" over time. There's plenty of info about over-provisioning on OWC's site (macsales.com) and how a portion of the drive is set aside to manage & avert performance degradation.

While some SSD's, if not many, will degrade over time as far as speed goes, the OWC stuff will not. At least not for a very, very long time and even then that's a rarity (I've actually never heard of it happening to anyone using OWC stuff).

They're the type of company that takes care of their customers (they did a HUGE favor for me back in January which was completely not beneficial to them in the least, financial-speaking, but it was a huge help to me. And they had no obligation at all to help me out. Just great people!

One other thing I wanted to point out about OWC is they seem, more than ever, geared toward the creative pro (audio, film, etc). And though they always have been, it really seems like their focus is on the stuff I see a lot of guys on GS ask for, generally speaking, which is refreshing after seeing lots of companies becoming more 'iOriented.'

Cheers!

Scott

P.S. I will say though, they've got to do something about the actual names of the products. They're so long, complex and hard to remember. Some of the product names are even hard to pronounce on top of being long, complex and hard to remember!! Haha

I've talked to them many times before about it just 'cause I love that company and they really do appreciate the feedback.

I think one of my million OWC products is called something like:

OWC Mercury Elite al Pro Dual-Hardware RAID Enclosure

Haha!!

Love ya OWC !!!!

In my experience, and MANY, MANY OTHERS (remember the OCZ fiasco a while back...???) OCZ SSDs should be steered clear of. And then even worse...the way the company responded / reacted towards their paying customers regarding the issue was appaliing!!

Stay away...far away...from OCZ SSDs.

Compared to OWC SSDs....it's a total no brainer, IMO. I honestly don't know why anyone would ever choose an OCZ SSD over an OWC SSD.

On the other hand, if you're simply not into OWC for whatever reason, I'd also recommend Intel and Crucial SSDs.

Just not OCZ. Definitely not them.

Scott

P.S. I also believe OWC makes their stuff in the the good 'ole US of A!!

Agreed. OWC has amazing customer service.

Unlikely. Assembled, maybe.

It says "Built in the USA" which is not the same as "Made in the USA"

Some OWC products are built in the USA, not China. There was an article about it last year (from their local city paper).

They're also 'greener' than most companies and have won the 'Green Award / Environmentally Conscious Award' (whatever those awards are called) numerous times.

Anyways, it's all on their site (macsales.com) or you can google it.

Scott

The OWC SSD's in general are quite good. I had a few fail on me a couple of years ago, and another DOA. Great service though in getting me back up and running.
After the initial bad run, those I have now are also surviving the rigors of 12 hour days, 6 days a week quite well - and often left on over night (though less the last 12 months!)

I also use Crucial M4 SSD's... last bought them about 9 months ago for $1.40 a GB (512GB). Today, the price can be got for half that! A bargain, and a great disk.

These 960GB disks are very high cost per GB... if you can spare the space and SATA buss, grab 2x512's (or 480's) for the moment.

I would say every ssd is sufficient speaking about speed for 95 % of the tasks we have to manage in audio.
Of course size counts.
Then it's just a matter of slutty behaviour...

Performance-degradation is a huge issue with SSDs. And the various SSD brands are all over the map as to how they address the issue, if at all. /-:

So in that sense, not all SSDs are created equally.

Also, the difference in speed between 3G and 6G SSDs is significant. 6G SSDs also have faster read times for small, random ~4Kb+ files which is really the most important spec to be looking at for DAW use and most everything else, for that matter.

Anyways, my point is I personally wouldn't take the, "...any SSD will get the job done..." philosophy simply because there are indeed many factors to take into account.

Scott

I got a Samsung 830 256GB for about about 1$ per gig. It is amazing.

Instant buy when it's in Europe !! looking for more reliability feedback .....

thks TRS for sharing the info ....

also this option for desktop users :

Newegg.com - OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0960 PCI-E 960GB PCI-Express x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Ummmm...what? Wrong Quote Perhaps lol.

Every post by this account has been just like that....

Are you saying from my account or the guy's account who posted the image/question mark? Or Monobrow?

peace ~


Scott

Yeah, the other poster...

Poor Read speed (when You compare to samsung 830 512 GB or Crucial m4 512 GB or Vertex 4 512 GB). Write speed are low too (like on Crucial m4). TRIM will not work (there is 2x sandforce controller, and it look like internal RAID).

Where did you get non trim support info ?


What about this one ?

Sub-$1500 Kingmax 1TB SSD spotted in Japan -- Engadget

those 2 just say "more expensive" these days not particular "good" or better than made in china.

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OWC SSD's have built in TRIM, this model is 3G sata not 6G as the Samsung 530 so the speed comparison is probably not fair when size is the selling point.

+1 - That's an absurd comparison.

When comparing fairly (3G vs 3G / 6G vs 6G, etc) I'd love for someone to show me an SSD that can not only perform (speed) as well as OWC's SSDs, but provide the stability (reliability over time), has better drive degradation defenses (7% to 12 % over-provisioning / 3-5 yr warrant on all SSDs) and of course the best customer service in the biz!!

Honestly, OWC's SSDs are the absolute bomb!!!

The new one that just came out comes via PCIe does something like 800 or 900 MB/s sustained!!!!!

WOW!!

Scott

P.S. The advertised speeds on OWC's site for their various SSD offerings are always right on with real-world use. No exaggerating.

P.P.S. I have six OWC SSDs. Four are 3G and I've had them for about 2 years. The other two are 6G. Not a single one of them has show an inkling of performance degradation. No degradation of any kind, for that matter.

TRIM is a system command. There is no "TRIM built in" (SSD can only support the TRIM). But it could be Garbage Collection ... and this is not the same.

ps. about "speed comparison is not fair, because OWC is SATA 2" - I could say "OWC are poor bacause is only SATA 2" if You prefer this answer
As I know, TRIM doesn't work in RAID.

Bigger over-provisioning, doesn't give You automatically longer SSD life. If You want extra "hard to kill" SSD, buy model on SLC chips.

ps. Vertex 4 have 5 yr warranty

I'm sure you very knowing with all this Kyle, but at the end of the day OWC supply great SSD's for the Mac environment, they maintain the read/write speeds advertised and 960GB is a load of SSD regardless of TRIM or Garbage Collection.
The price is the only thing slowing the inevitable purchase for the Optibay of my 2011 MBPro!

While you're whole post was false, I'll just focus on this gem:

"speed comparison is not fair, because OWC is SATA 2" - I could say "OWC are poor bacause is only SATA 2" if You prefer this answer

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My experience:

OWC makes the best SATA 6G SSDs. Period. These SSDs literally saturate almost the entire 6Gb/s bus.

SATA 6G is SATA 3.0...just in case you didn't know.

So saying what you wrote above in quotes.....

...could not possibly make less sense.


You should have a look at some of the SSD review sites (there's plenty) and familiarize yourself a bit more with what's out there.

Scott

I agree regarding OSZ, just had one that messed me up forever before I finally found out what was wrong w my machine. SO ANNOYING.

if you read carefully you would know that it was written (SATA2 = 3Gbit, SATA3 = 6 Gbit)

next time .... try to think


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM
"TRIM command allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive " ... TRIM must be supported by SSD, AND by OS ... my "false gem". Simply talking TRIM is a OS command "to" SSD, which supports TRIM.