Thanks for this review. After watching it I've ordered a Filemate 48GB SSD, received it in less than 24hours, and installed the OS and the Applications on it. It works flawlessly! It is damn fast! I just can't understand why System Profiler shows it as a 45.02 GB drive (I've correctly formatted it in Journaled HFS+ before installing Snow Leopard). Cheers!
@StrategicBrain Either the filesystem has taken the missing space, the disk vendors are trying to perpetuate the practice of advertising rounded up disk sizes or both.
First I thought it was being advertised as SI gigabytes (one billion bytes), but that would yield 44.7 binary gigabytes.
Also, fuck anyone who uses SI gigabytes and their stupid base 10 rounding.
I have the mid year 2009 model MacBook Pro with the SD card slot. I've read about overheating as a problem. What do any of you know about overheating or any other problems. I also have the 7200 rpm hard drive and I wonder what internal hard drive the computer in the video has?
Why wont this work in 2006 models (running Leopard)? Surely if it worked in the 07 and 08 models then there is nothing architecturally/software-wise to prevent it from working in the original MBPs?
Why are the ssd for the express slot cheaper than a regular ssd you would install internally? They have come down in price, but the price for the 48 gb ssd card is cheaper than any ssd drive I have seen so far. Are they dropping in price that fast? Great video.
Thinking of doing this in my 2011 model.
ItsMichaelW 10 months ago
Respect for the channel.
Tell me is the same thing SSD installed on bard like SSD on ExpressCard, for the speed??
Thanks.
DILYMIX 11 months ago
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KelipejoHimoqi 1 year ago
Thanks for this review. After watching it I've ordered a Filemate 48GB SSD, received it in less than 24hours, and installed the OS and the Applications on it. It works flawlessly! It is damn fast! I just can't understand why System Profiler shows it as a 45.02 GB drive (I've correctly formatted it in Journaled HFS+ before installing Snow Leopard). Cheers!
StrategicBrain 1 year ago
@StrategicBrain Either the filesystem has taken the missing space, the disk vendors are trying to perpetuate the practice of advertising rounded up disk sizes or both.
First I thought it was being advertised as SI gigabytes (one billion bytes), but that would yield 44.7 binary gigabytes.
Also, fuck anyone who uses SI gigabytes and their stupid base 10 rounding.
atan0k 1 year ago
Now I have OWC 100GB SSD and my Xbench score for the SSD is 289.76 the original score with 500GB 7200rpm seagate was : 48.11
Fastest on the market right now.
madeinhungary 2 years ago
I had this and it quit working after 3 weeks.
Unreliable!!!
madeinhungary 2 years ago
I have the mid year 2009 model MacBook Pro with the SD card slot. I've read about overheating as a problem. What do any of you know about overheating or any other problems. I also have the 7200 rpm hard drive and I wonder what internal hard drive the computer in the video has?
richardspurgeon 2 years ago
Why wont this work in 2006 models (running Leopard)? Surely if it worked in the 07 and 08 models then there is nothing architecturally/software-wise to prevent it from working in the original MBPs?
jkelvinferguson 2 years ago
It might be that the ExpressCard isn't connected the same way via PCIe, or isn't recognized as an internal drive for some other reason.
schildkroeter 2 years ago
Why are the ssd for the express slot cheaper than a regular ssd you would install internally? They have come down in price, but the price for the 48 gb ssd card is cheaper than any ssd drive I have seen so far. Are they dropping in price that fast? Great video.
NorCalExplorer 2 years ago
I have a Transcend 32GB SSD, and after a while it will unmount the drive, perhaps when running on batteries (could be low power is an issue).
VE7TCC 2 years ago 8
@VE7TCC me too. Plus, the peformance was not better than a 7200 RPM HDD.
stuinzuri 1 year ago
can this work on an imac 27 inch??
Meta221 2 years ago
dude, just check its a slot on the side, nothing internal
LJM2stepspain 2 years ago
No. It needs to have an express card reader.
ejicon 1 year ago
How did he make that folder with the apps in?
Just copy them to a folder?
Xionstudio 2 years ago
That is awesome! Thank you for adding the Application launch test. That really gives a good idea of the speed increase. 5/5
-Dylan
JMDylan 2 years ago
wow.. owned
3883624 2 years ago
Can you do this for boot camp?
Nanotech11 2 years ago
Hey great vid. Question do you actually install Mac OSX on the express card?
broadout 2 years ago
Wow that is a very impressive test and all round video. I thikn I might buy one of the drives for my Daughters MacBook Pro.
iharrison30 2 years ago 6