From: Charles Robinson
On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:46 , Steve Cottrell <[email protected]>
wrote:
As an aside, my son's 2008 Macbook (not pro) was getting very
lumpy under 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and so we got him a 250 GB Samsung
SSD from Amazon (?127) and installed it last night. The difference
is astonishing. It has transformed his Mac and smiles all around.
I'm going to do same for my 2006 MBP soon.
My latest laptop (15" Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM) from work came with a
(not-requested by me) 500GB SSD and the speed is phenomenal.
500GB is "a little light" for my work, so I have archival stuff on an
external 2TB USB3 drive. I'm considering swapping out the
as-yet-unused optical drive for a bracket that can hold another 2.5"
drive in there as well.
I just read that Seagate is discontinuing production of 2.5" 7200RPM
drives. They see it's all going SSD. If you need high-performance,
spinning oxide on metal ain't going to be what you do.
My assumption is that they'll keep the slower discs around for a
while for the cheapskates.
-Charles
During my most recent weekly pilgrimage to my local computer store, 3TB
7200rpm Seagate drives were less than $140.
The largest SSD available at a comparable price was 120GB.
I think large spinning drives may hold the mass storage market for a
while yet.
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