MacBook Air SSD Brand & Speed ?

Hello!

Anybody knows the Read/Write speed of the MacBook Air SSD ?


Thanks in advance

 

You going to buy one?

 

Yes, hopefully!

 

Without having inside information I'd put my money on Samsung.

For the speeds you'll have to dig up the reviews yourself.

 

Once the units start showing up at the retail stores we'll be able to find out via the System Profiler. Anyone heading to Macworld??

 

Then maybe some people took a look while they were at Mac World!

 

I was at Macworld yesterday. All the display units were the 1.6Ghz models with the 80GB hard drives. The SSD models were not available for display.

 

so how was the speed?

 

I agree with Phil. Probably Samsung.

Smagdy, there is a giant thread regarding SSD performance under Accesories or the hardware section. I'd suggest taking a look at that. Overall read is pretty instant, but write is very slow on some. Bigger problem is the longer term reliability is still unknown. There IS a limited number of read and writes it seems, but there are algorithms used to give the longest number of both.

 

If you don't have a model name or basis for testing how can you assume that the write capability is worse than a spindle drive. We're dealing with memory, keep that in mind. I want to know where you are basing your information on. Seems like you are just going around thread to thread advocating against the MacBook Air whenever someone asks a question.

 

Perhaps every bench mark out there? Go do some research instead of thinking that it's great because Apple put it in there. It's still a new technology.

As I said, we have several benchmarks and massive thread regarding SSD. Perhaps be a little less lazy and go take a look for yourself. And perhaps go to tomshardware while your at it.

Obviously you lack comprehension skills so maybe I will spell this out again... I said it is PROBABLY a Samsung. I never said it was. I said SOME units have slow write times. Particularly random write times. Mitron makes on that has particularly fast drives. And again, I never said to take my word at it, I suggested he go read the thread where people who OWN them and USE them have their own benchmarks and feedback.

And I'm more than free to give my opinion regarding the MBA vs other laptops to other users on here. It's up to them to make their won decision on what is right for THEM. I know that, and if someone wants the MBA, thats okay. Go ahead, but I want to make sure that people who want to ask on here about buying one, fully understand the pros and cons for the system.

 

Hey I am with in that SSD is a new technology and may not be the fastest BUT the more manufactures that use them the farther they will advance So that is good news for us I work with gear inside emergency vehicles and have been following the SSD threads and these drives for some time becuase for my application the "ruggedness" of them is exactly what I need. Cost is still a factor as is relability cuase loosing data makes people kinda upset.

Please ignore the other Mac users that unfortunately do believe that SteveJobs is a God and Leopard is what cuases the earth to rotate ....