SSD in new mini
Has anybody installed an SSD in the new mini? Any issues? Easy to do?
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System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F2025)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model Macmini4,1
Drive Type Corsair CSSD-V256GB2
CPU Test 168.99
GCD Loop 280.21 14.77 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 136.97 3.25 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 110.22 3.64 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 268.30 46.72 Mops/sec
Thread Test 194.53
Computation 342.04 6.93 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 135.92 5.85 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 195.90
System 231.16
Allocate 389.60 1.43 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.39 8722.32 MB/sec
Copy 206.76 4270.48 MB/sec
Stream 169.98
Copy 162.55 3357.46 MB/sec
Scale 159.73 3299.92 MB/sec
Add 180.26 3839.99 MB/sec
Triad 179.44 3838.74 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 172.71
Line 134.05 8.92 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 164.87 49.22 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 145.76 11.88 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 162.48 4.10 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 414.94 25.96 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 152.39
Spinning Squares 152.39 193.32 frames/sec
User Interface Test 187.27
Elements 187.27 859.45 refresh/sec
Disk Test 244.71
Sequential 227.89
Uncached Write 290.03 178.07 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 299.87 169.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 119.04 34.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 422.15 212.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 264.20
Uncached Write 91.50 9.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 424.51 135.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1450.59 10.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 857.19 159.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]
I know the xbench is not a superb tool for the bench mark..
Personally, I am very happy with the overall the Unibody Mini (SSD or not), much less heat and better graphic which I did not see any lagging in iMovie. the render is 1/2 -- 1/3 time of my old C2D (Intel Video 64m - pity).
The SATA 2 definitely takes advantage of the speed than the SATA1 (again, SSD or HDD). 2G memory can not hold the average workload -- 4G+ will really makes the difference.
Sam
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