OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS

[BlueTurboShark]

I just bought mine last month for my Mac BookPro and I have no complaints. I was wondering who else has one and what they think? They say it doesn't have a long life like the intel 510. Any thoughts?

[googe]

It's not nearly as fast as advertised. I have one in my macbook pro too.

They cheat on the benchmarks by using highly compressible data, since the sandforce controller in the drive does compression. Still good though, and way faster than a non-SSD.

I enabled TRIM on mine and get the occasional beachball in firefox. It should prolong the life of the drive somewhat though.

[cam_wmh]

I'll try to remember this thread in a year, to give feedback on my 510 (120gb).

[BlueTurboShark]

Originally posted by googe
I enabled TRIM on mine and get the occasional beachball in firefox. It should prolong the life of the drive somewhat though.

Did you download Trim enabler?

[SmAcKpOo]

Did you guys update the firmware? There is a firmware update for the drive that needs to be applied.

[AE92_TreunoSC]

I disabled hard disc caching for browsers to ensure the longevity of my vertex 2 when I got it. There's no need to worry about SSD life, unless you're constantly compiling or exchanging data you'll never reach the end of its life.

[BlueTurboShark]

First thing I did was update the firmware

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by BlueTurboShark
First thing I did was update the firmware

As recommend by ME when I picked my Vertex 2 up.

Seems decent but Tom's hardware do more in depth tests that write performance will eventually dropped off as time goes on.

[googe]

Originally posted by AE92_TreunoSC
I disabled hard disc caching for browsers to ensure the longevity of my vertex 2 when I got it. There's no need to worry about SSD life, unless you're constantly compiling or exchanging data you'll never reach the end of its life.

That's the theory as far as life of flash writes goes, but hasn't been what people report.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/201...ive-scale.html

Originally posted by BlueTurboShark


Did you download Trim enabler?

No, I used the perl script going around. The guy that wrote trim enabler is questionable.

http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/


OCZ said that firmware updates were not necessary unless you're getting the bluescreen issues, so I'm holding off on that. It's kind of a pain to update too.

[BlueTurboShark]

Originally posted by googe

No, I used the perl script going around. The guy that wrote trim enabler is questionable.

http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/

Yeah didn't want to download that because it only really works with snow. I also heard that in Lion it replaces a kext file with a snow file which may cause issues later on.

Think I will use the script. i found the same thing on this site http://www.mactrast.com/2011/07/how-...-in-os-x-lion/

[BlueTurboShark]

I enabled TRIM and my computer was becoming unstable while I did some video editing and some other multimedia stuff. Also i noticed when my computer would go to sleep it would freeze when waking it up. I reverted back and disabled Trim.

[googe]

^ Ah, yeah, I heard a few people were having issues like that. I tried it anyway, and so far I only rarely get a firefox hiccup, so I've left it on until it causes more issues. I haven't had any issues with sleeping though.

One thing you can do is turn it on once every month or two, reboot to single user mode and do an fsck which will mass-trim, then you can turn it off again. That will clear up some cruft periodically but won't trim in real time.

It's kind of weird that the OCZ does that, but not Apple branded SSDs, and windows doesn't have issues with it.