Review of Samsung PB22-J 256GB SATA-II
So I followed on from a friend (his review), and bought a 256 GB Samsung SSD for my unibody MacBook Pro. My main concern, which wasn’t price, was the fact that I was dropping back to a 256 GB drive, away from the 500 GB I currently had in the laptop. After some investigations and lesson learning when it came to iPhoto and Aperture photo archiving, I gave way and ordered it.
In short, here is a list of my before and after times for a few standard operations:
Operation -> HD Time -> SSD Time (seconds)
Boot -> 64 -> 35
Aperture Load -> 15 -> 4
Vmware XP Boot -> 49 -> 29
Vmware Outlook 07 Start -> 31 -> 9
Excel -> 18 -> 8
iTunes -> 10 -> 2
Safari -> 9 -> 1
So in short, its fantastic. I chose the Samsung as its a model Apple use in their stock, and for its decent performance and reliability (have never seen any of those nasty locks/hangs reported with this drive).
There is some negatively about SSD still out there, but for a laptop and personal use I think they are fantastic. The most significant upgrade I have done since shifting from Vista on a VAIO to a Macbook.
In short, here is a list of my before and after times for a few standard operations:
Operation -> HD Time -> SSD Time (seconds)
Boot -> 64 -> 35
Aperture Load -> 15 -> 4
Vmware XP Boot -> 49 -> 29
Vmware Outlook 07 Start -> 31 -> 9
Excel -> 18 -> 8
iTunes -> 10 -> 2
Safari -> 9 -> 1
So in short, its fantastic. I chose the Samsung as its a model Apple use in their stock, and for its decent performance and reliability (have never seen any of those nasty locks/hangs reported with this drive).
There is some negatively about SSD still out there, but for a laptop and personal use I think they are fantastic. The most significant upgrade I have done since shifting from Vista on a VAIO to a Macbook.