Trim is outside the realm of possibility. Not sure If doing an erase free space procedure monthly or so would help a bit. Modern drive "garbage collection" is pretty good. Anybody got any benchmarks? I picked up a velociraptor to use in an old G4 rather than try to work through SSD issues.
Sent from my mobile device. On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:58 PM, "ah...clem" <[email protected]> wrote: > anyone had success putting an SSD in a G5 and getting the maximum speed out > of it? issues i'm aware of include the native SATA-1 interface, which will > limit speed to a theoretical max of 187.5 MB/s, regardless of how fast the > SSD itself is. the way around that is to use an expansion slot and a SATA-2 > or SATA-3 controller. problem is, i'm having a hard time finding a PCI-e > SATA-3 controller that's compatible and bootable. i tried one of the > Apricorn Velocity Solo cards (PCI-e/sata-3 controller and carrier for 2.5" > SSD), and it is indeed bootable in a 2009 MacPro, but it is invisible in my > G5 quad. system profiler and disk utility don't even know it's there. it's > "supposed" to work in ANY computer with a PCI-e slot. waiting to hear back > from customer support. > > one bit of good news i can share is that at $43 (sans drive) it was an > appealing alternative to the much more costly Sonnet cards, and outrageously > expensive Accelsior cards, and it works flawlessly in a MacPro, delivering a > read/write speed of 480 MB/s (if your SSD is up to it), just not the G5 i > intended it for. > > anyone have any other suggestions, or success stories with other hdwe? TIA > for all replies. > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
