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SSD

Anonymous
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anyone running a solid state drive? New computer time and I am trying to figure out what should be in the box.

Thanks Cary
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Karl Ottenstein
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Here're a couple of Mac benchmarks of SSD vs HD. Some feedback on someone using AC would be interesting, but the numbers here are probably useful:

http://www.barefeats.com/hard121.html

http://www.barefeats.com/hard118.html

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
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Make sure your run it from a SATA ii, 3.0 Gb/s connector,
SLC is better than MLC technology,
Read reviews, some SSD's run slower in RAID than solo!,
SSDs (some Intel excepted) degrade performance with use.

Some reading for WinTel machines:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-performance-power,2279.html