I have an early 2013 Retina 15″ with a SanDisk (SD256E) SSD, also have a SanDisk Extreme, and a SSDNow V300. In all frankness, I cannot tell the difference between the three in terms of speed. They are all pretty fast. BOOTNOTE: Mavericks is booting up slower on all of my machines, all on SSDs, and I believe […]
On Monday, I received my 17″ Mac Book Pro with a 128 GB SSD, ordered within the first hour of availability. I ran xbench and ATTO Bench to evaluate the disk speed. The SSD disk is good, but not great. It is nowhere near where intel’s SSD offerings are. Interestingly, I also noticed that i5 […]
My new 17″ Mac Book Pro showed up this morning. I had ordered the 128 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) with the laptop, and I have not yet played with it much, but it boots in just a few seconds. Check out the boot video below: The drive appears as: It has the following xbench […]
