WD VelociRaptor VS Intel SSD

Well, it's going to be a matter of what is more important to you.Assuming a static budget:SSD is going to mean more performanceHDD is going to mean more spaceYou're going to need to outline the following:Your budgetThe amount of storage you need nowThe amount of storage you'll need in 5 yearsThe amount of storage you'll need in 10 yearsThe average file size of data on this serverIf you're dealing with a lot of smaller files, you're probably not going to notice a performance hit over the network by using hard drives, that will also benefit you if you're growing with regards to data. (or have a high storage need and low budget).I would also suggest not using WD Velociraptor drives, I would suggest WD RED drives, you'll get more bang for your buck and to be frank there's a good chance that a 12 user server isn't going to strictly need the...

VelociRaptor: Slower Randoms and access times, read/write speed of a low-end SSD. Longer life but total lost of data (per drive) when it fails. Cheaper per GB price.SSD: Faster,

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Intel SSD 530 240gb - 17" late 2011 Macbook Pro

I was given a new in the bag Intel SSD 530 240gb
I have a 17" late 2011 Macbook Pro..
I can afford to buy another brand and sell this one online/ebay...
Am I asking for problems installing and using this? My laptop is the core of my business so I need stability.
I have not only a timecapsul backup but also a daily copy clone to a internal hard drive in my MB too..
If I choose not to use it is the general consensus Samsung the most Mac compatible.
I'm in Bali and so warrantee follow up is a nightmare..
Thanks in advance..

I do not have experience with the Intel SSD's but I also heard of some problems (that you can solve with a firmware update, which is not easy to do).
I would go for the lowest risk and buy Crucial SSD.
Samsung is NOT the most compatible for Mac, it is as compatible as most other brands. The disadvantage in the Samsung SSD's is that it does not have the best diskcontroller. Crucial has the Marvell controller which is by far better.
I have experience with Samsung, Crucial, Micron (same as Crucial), Mercure. They all work well, with the best experience with Crucial. About 10 MacbookPros upgraded to SSD.
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Z60T + INTEL SSD problem!

Hi,
I want to chance the old HAD from a Z60T to a Intel SSD.
Notebook type: 2511-EJG
SSD Model: SSDSA2M160G2GC
I had cloned the dates from the old HDD with Acronis True Image Home 2010 to the Intel SSD.
But after installing the SSD into the laptop the OS do not boot. I had contacted the lenovo telephone support but they can't help me to find the reason.
After checking some theadsof this forum I have the idée it can bee a problem with the SATA1/ SATA2 respectively 1.5 Gb/sec / 3 Gb/sec media transfer rat compatibility.
Is that the problem? And how can I fix it?
Tanks and sorry for my bad English skills. I hope you still understand me.

admindrey, welcome to the forum,
please try cloning again, but this time with the SSD inserted in the primary hdd slot in your Z60. The original drive in an usb external enclosure and boot from an Acronis rescue cd you can create with Acronis.
Let us know how you get on.
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Intel SSD Firmware Update Tool ISO does not boot

Hello everyone
Yesterday I tried to install Mavericks on my MacBook Pro 13" 8,1 but I got stuck because I have an Intel SSD inside and it seems that MacOSX 10.8 doesn't have the right driver on board. So I downloaded the Intel SSD Firmware Update Tool 2.0.6 ISO, burned it on a CD with DiscUtility and tried to boot from it.
The problem is that it doesn't boot from the CD. It just ends with the blinking/flashing question mark folder.
Luckily I have a second MacBook Pro 13" 8,1 from work. Just out of couriosity I inserted the disk inside this MacBook and tried to boot from it.
Everything went fine. I saw the Intel Firmware Updater etc.
So now my question: What is going on with my first mac? Why does it NOT boot the CD?
What I need to say at this point: I burned the CD with the MacBook from work. Could this be the reason?
hope someone can help me
Best Regards
krebbl

yes that's right. Unfortunatly I don't have a Windows PC.
But like I said, my second MacBook Pro boots from this CD and shows me the firmware updater. My first MacBook with the Intel SSD does not.
And like in the post here http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57575091-263/intel-x25-ssd-incompatible-wit h-os-x-10.8.3/ it should be no problem.
Are there other ways to boot an ISO file?

Lenonvo T440 with Intel SSD SC2BF240A4L - failing to install apps via SCCM 2012 task sequence

Hi there
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue with a T440 with Intel SSD hard disk.
Our firm purchased two Lenovo T440 laptops. One has a magnetic hard disk, the other a SSD hard disk. Here are the models:
SSD hard disk: Intel SSDSC2BF240A4L
Magnetic hard disk: 500Gb 7200rpm HTS725050A7E635
We deploy our Windows 7 build via a SCCM 2012 task sequence.
Building the T440 with the magnetic hard disk was trouble free. I built it repeatedly, and encountered no errors; our core applications installed successfully every time and the task sequence completed successfully every time.
All well and good.
Building the T440 with the Intel SSD hard disk has been frustrating. When I run the task sequence on this machine, 8 times out of 10 the task sequence will fail, either stopping abruplty at installing Oracle Single-Sign On or Appsense agents. When the task sequence fails it is ALWAYS at one of these two apps.
Frustratingly, sometimes the task sequence will complete successfully on this T440.
Given we successfully deploy this task sequence to a variety of different hardware from different vendors, including other Lenovo laptops, I can only guess the Intel SSD hard disk is the culprit.
Has anyone encountred anything like this? I've went through the smsts.log file and other SCCM log files and can find nothing obvious. That this ONLY happens on the T440 with the SSD suggests to me the issues lies in that direction.
I'll swap disks in either T440 to see if the other T440 fails also with the SSD aboard, to see what happens.
Meantime if anyone has any information about this issue I'd be grateful if you coud share.
Thanks
CT

Does the install provide any logging? Does execmgr.log show any other info?
Per the readme, it should be setup.exe.
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/girc15ww.txt
Unattended Install
This is for system administrators' use only.
1. Refer to the Manual Install section, and download and extract the file.
2. In the step 11 of the Installing files section, uncheck the checkbox next
to "Install ..... now", and then select Finish to cancel installation.
3. At the command line, execute Setup.exe with the -s option.
Example: [Path where the files were extracted]\Setup -s
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Intel SSD 510 120gb in Macbook Pro 2010

Hi all. I have bought an Intel SSD 510 series 120gb and installed it instead of Superdrive. After that I cloned the Macintosh HD disk to a new SSD.
I moved user's home directory to the HDD drive, enabled noatime for SSD, turned disk sleep off and hibernate to 0. Everything works fine. Today my friend told me that Mac OS X 10.6.7 does not support trim command and my SSD resource will not be long. I checked System Information and saw that he was right. In the sistem information there is a line: TRIM Support: No. I know that new 2011 macbook pro comes with TRIM support: yes function. How can I enable TRIM support in Snow Leopard for my SSD?
Thank you very much.

Recently installed same type of SSD (Intel 520 120GB) in our 2010 Macbook (white) and runs just as well as its big bro. No problems at all. Storage isn't an issue since most stuff's in the cloud these days and we carry large files around on a USB stick. Way to go!

Intel SSD in MacBook Pro

Hi everyone,
I have a Macbook Pro 15, mid-2009. I put a SSD in it. However, it's getting slow gradually. My question is how to restore the Intel SSD performance like brand-new. Please as specific as possible, thank you.

How long have you had the drive?
How hard do you use it?
How do you know its slower – through everyday usage or through benchmark tests?
This is the issue with SSDs - they slow down over time. Its the way they store and then remove data. Basically, when you delete something, its marked as deleted but not actually removed from the disk. Hence, next time you write data to them particular memory blocks, it needs to wipe the old data and replace it with the new, which takes a little more time.
There is a feature called TRIM, which basically runs when the drive is idle, and sets about 'cleaning up' the disk so that its ready to be written on, and hence faster.
However, firstly your SSD must support TRIM, and your OS must also support TRIM. Currently the only OS that supports TRIM is Windows 7, unfortunately. It seems that with the recent 10.4.6 update, TRIM support is being added to Snow Leopard as it is listed in the system properties, but its not actually 'switched on' yet. Maybe Apple haven’t quite got the full functionality going yet......
SSDs come with an ‘Indilinx’ controller built into them. This is a slightly older controller, which needs TRIM since, as you’ve noticed, the drive tends to slow down over time.
However, newer, and more expensive SSDs, are being released with a new ‘SandForce’ controller. There is secrecy around how this controller works, but its reported to do the TRIM feature on-the-fly – so it doesn’t suffer from slow down issues. I have a Vertex 2 SSD, which has the SandForce controller, and although I haven’t had it very long, its as fast as when I first installed it, and it should stay very close to this speed, as other people who have SandForce drives have noticed with their benchmarks.
The only way to speed up you drive to how it was when new, at the moment, is to use a tool to perform a clean reformat (a normal format wont do). You’ll need to search Google for a tool that does this with SSDs as I haven’t looked into any. The downside is that you obviously need to reinstall everything from scratch afterwards – hence it comes down to whether you can be bother to go through the procedure. Your SSD should still be much faster then a HDD even in its ‘slow state’.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2458214

Windows 7 does not recognize second Intel SSD on W701

Hello,
I recently added a second Intel SSD to my W701. Windows 7 shows the new SSD in the Hardware Manager but W7 does not assign a logical drive number to the new SSD. The new SSD does not appear in My Computer.
Do I need to format the new SSD?
If so, how do I force W7 to format the new SSD?
And why didn't W7 format the new SSD when it was discovered by the Hardware Manager?
Thank you

Windows never formats a drive without explicit user instructions.
In the Start search, type in "Create and format hard disk partitions" and use Disk Management to assign a drive letter.
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Portege R500 - compatibility with Intel SSD 320 160GB

I have installed an Intel SSD 320 160GB in my Portege R500 (PPR50E).
However, the BIOS does not detect the new drive. I upgraded the BIOS to the 1.60WIN version , the newest one I found, but the drive is still not detected.
Is there any possible solution? Or I have to throw the drive away?
Thankyou for any help

Hi,
thankyou for your answers, but finally I got it.
Previously I tried to do it cloning the drive with Norton Ghost in another computer, but maybe I did not select a correct formatting of the drive, I'm not sure. The point was that it did not work. The Portege R500 said something as insert a drive to continue. And when I tried to start with a CD of Windows XP SP3 installation it said that there was no drive available for the installation.
Nevertheless, when I started with a Ubuntu CD I could access to the drive for reading, but no installation was possible.
Then, I upgraded the Portege BIOS, but it did not work.
Finally I found the Intel software for migration of SSD disk, and it was much easier. I followed the steps, it did the cloning (hopefully I had an external USB-ATA conversor to do it) and changed again the Toshiba drive to the SSD. Without much hope, I turned on the computer ... and it worked! Everything was OK, nothing was changed ... and as expected, it works much faster.
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Intel SSD Toolbox does not report expected life remaining of SSD drive

I am trying to figure out expected life remaining of my INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L on my X220T with Intel Core i7-2640M CPU 2.80GHz and 8GM of RAM, running Win7 64bit. I have been using my X220T for over a year. It is my only computer, so it has been used continously for a year.
Yesterday I installed the Itel SSD Toolbok 3.1.5 to check my SSD drive. Although the SMART Details provide me with the raw data, the normalized scores are all 100%. The expected life remaining shown is 100%, which does not seem to make much sense after a year of use.
I ran the Lenovo Hard Drive Quick Test (http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&DocID=DS025445). The SMART seems to be enable and working.
I would like to know if the Intel SSD Toolbox is working properly.

billbolton wrote:
SSDs do not "wear" in the same way that a mechanical drive does. There is nothing abnormal in an SSD showing no effective wear in terms of SMART parameters after a year of typical use.
In terms of determining remaining life, SMART parameters are really only useful for that when a drive (of any sort) is starting to get near the end of its life.
Cheers,
Bill
Bill,
Are you implying there is no need for garbage collection or wear-leveling after a year or that the SSD and/or OS take care of garbage collection and wear-leveling so the user won't notice the difference after a year?
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Intel SSD & Fresh Leopard Install

I have an Intel SSD arriving today. I want to install it in my Mac Pro and then install a fresh copy of Leopard. I want to completely forget about the other hard drive in the machine for now and I will disable it by physically uninstalling it. Therefore my question is:
1. If I install the new Intel SSD can I boot from the Leopard CD and perform a "fresh" install of Leopard ?
2. If so, how do I boot from the CD and is there anything else I have to do?
3. If I later want to add the original hard drive back into the Mac Pro as a storage drive, can I do that?
4. If so, how does it show up in Leopard? I am use to Windows machines; therefore will it be a separate drive?
5. If not, how will Leopard handle it and distributing the data between the SSD and the HDD?
I get the other common sense topics, like back you data up, etc...
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Unless you physically put data on a drive, nothing happens. You/we don't have the option to 'extend' a drive or have a partition mount inside a folder for insance - unless you use hard or symbolic links. But that is not something most people do or not that manner.
Most people setup with boot drive - can be any drive bay; media library drive; perhaps scratch drive or array (for CS4 editing). Maybe internal TimeMachine auto-backup (handy to have 30GB Mac OS boot volume for running maintenance and repairs - something that is done differently).
It will appear in the Finder as it would in Explorer as a drive "F" (or some letter) volume would.
Your home account is in /Users/myaccount
That can be located on a 2nd drive - page 152-3 in "Missing Manual" using Accounts control panel's advanced options to assign /Users/ to be on another volume.
Disabling swap (page file) isn't possible, and most just make sure to have more than enough RAM to never pageout - never - something no one wants to happen and different mind set.
Anything you can do to reduce I/O writes to your boot volume being SSD helps. Disable indexing (spotlight) on boot volume. Don't let CS4 use boot volume for primary scratch (true even w/o SSDs).
iTunes and other Apple and Adobe apps allow you to set default location in program preferences.
Safari - does a whole lot of writing and cache build-up of your bookmarks and web sites and stores those in your home account (denoted by the "~" tilde symbol) at
~/Library/Caches/MetaData - which I manually delete/remove from time to time though Safari has clear caches and a reset preference, it doesn't remove as much as I would - or in the past didn't. That is the type of thing that is fast on SSD but also until TRIM and scavenger is supported (SL?) it causes SSD performance to degrade.
Pairing two SSDs as boot array is easy and can be done in software (Apple Disk Utility) and no need to enter F8 or load drivers. Extreme performance of interest? Also lets you expand from 120GB to 240GB (and allow you to leave more free space as well).
So you could use two drive bays for the system. I chose to just use 10K V-Raptor as boot drive and good enough for my humble needs.
You can boot from USB and FireWire drives, as easily (not as fast!) as your internal drive bays. A feature that have on one Intel mobo but not others.
A clean install along with good maintenance and you really shouldn't need to do a again. SuperDuper and good disk repair program (we dont' rely on just fsck) should keep things working fine unless there is a software error, in which case, just RESTORE the system from last good backup. The system itself probably doesn't have significant changes for weeks. It is user data and account that needs more frequent backups.

Intel SSD Toolbox work with T510?

I recently swapped in an Intel 320 series 300gb SSD in my T510. The drive works great, and Windows recognizes it as an Intel SSDSA2CW300G3. But the Intel SSD Toolbox application doesn't see the drive (or any drive, since that's the only one in the system). I've tried the usual uninstall/reinstall, reboot routines, with no effect. A post somewhere suggested that turning off ACHI in bios might help, but when I did that, Windows wouldn't boot.
I have the same Intel SSD on my desktop, and the Toolbox application works fine there. Both are Win7-64 machines, and in device manager, both show the same Microsoft driver (6.1.7600.16385) and the same hardware ids for the drives.
Does anyone know if the Intel app works on a T510?

I tried Intel’s online chat support and encountered a helpful tech who took me through updating drivers and trying a couple of other pieces of software. It turns out that Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology applet sees the drive fine. So does SSDLife Free, which assures me that my drive is in excellent health, should last until 2020, and has Trim enabled. But even though no other app has a problem seeing the drive, and I have new drivers and an updated Lenovo bios in my T510, Intel SSD Toolbox still can’t see anything on my system. For the moment, I’ll just live without Toolbox.

Is it safe to use a Intel ssd on Lion?

I have two SSD'S, Is it safe to use a Intel SSD as a usb time macine back up drive and another Intel SSD for Lion?...Thank's.

It probably will not be an issue but the 'brick' will get very warm if you are using heavyweight applications. If so, best to put it on a non insulating surface (which a rug is not).
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Intel SSD 320 Series Unreliability, Intel or OSX Lion at fault?

Hi,
I have been using the Intel SSD 320 Series 160Gb SSD in a Quad Core iMac for a couple of months.
Its was running fine all through the Lion Beta program, but Monday evening, my iMac with OSX Lion locked up and I had to power off the system (that never happens to my Mac normally).
On rebooting, I got the flashing folder with a question mark, signifying no devices with a valid OS were detected
The following morning, I had to replace the SSD with a 1TB platter drive and restore my system (thank god for Time Machine).
Disk Utility repoerts the SSD as 8.4Mb in size (no, thats not a typo) and thinks the drive is unformatted.
This is very disappointing, so much for hoping SSD would be more reliable than mechanical drives
I loved the speed of the SSD, but this type of failure whether its Intel's fault or OSX causing this catestrophic failure I am still unsure, but either way its totally un-acceptable and has made me wary of wanting to try again with SSD!
D.

To help future users searching, I have an update.
This appears to be a bug in the Intel 320 Series SSD drives which Intel have acknowledged.
I applaud them for owning up to the problem, but I am furious they let a product of this type get to market with a serious bug like this in the first place!!
If anyone is using one of these drives I suggest you make sure your Time Machine backups are running fine and are up-to-date and constantly check out the link below for a firmware update that at the time of writing has still not materialised.
Rest assured, you have a ticking time bomb on your hands!
http://communities.intel.com/message/133505
http://www.techpowerup.com/149064/Intel-Acknowledges-SSD-320-Series-8-MB-Bug-.ht ml

Intel SSD

I am a pro photog and run my main setup on a 17" MBP uni. pre i7. I had a 7200 rom drive and 8 gigs of ram and was still lagging in Aperture and the total system was running dog slow. I searched and searched and searched and everyone had mixed reviews on the best SSD. I found an intel 80gig x25m drive for $150. SO I put it in. Pre SSD it took 2 mins to boot and load all 9 of my business apps I use to run my biz. After the SSD install, I was able to boot and load all 9 apps in 39 seconds. This is on the intel drive that a lot of people talk smack on. I have to say, this drive is amazing. I also took out my dvd drive and got a bay from MCE to add a second HDD. I put my 7200 rpm 640gig drive in its place. Partitioned so 80 gigs mirrors the ssd and the rest is my additional storage for my photo work. I also bring a FW800 2T drive to backup my entire machine just in case.
So the point of my post is to let you all know the Intel SSD drive is awesome. I have had it for 3 weeks now and have seen no degradation as some claimed.

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yah it can be twice as fast. just imagination 4 SSD in a raid in a mac pro

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