These 'cheap' SSDs really make me consider going the route of replacing my cd drive in my laptop with one as my boot drive. From what I understand, having your documents and media on a traditional magnetic drive doesn't really slow down the boost gained from having apps and the OS on an SSD. Anyone have experience doing this (specifically in a MacBook Pro)?
I have that setup on my desktop, and it's a considerable improvement over booting, starting applications, etc, off of the old Raptor 10k drive.
For a laptop it's more problematic since you can only fit one drive internally. When I upgrade my MBP (whenever the new ones come out), I'll probably put a larger SSD in it so there's some space for stuff you need to have on-drive.
I've done exactly this in my MBP and been very pleased. 80GB X25-M as the primary drive, and a larger disk as the secondary drive.
As an aside -- for whatever reason, I couldn't get my optical drive to work in the enclosure provided with the Optibay. I didn't investigate too much, since it just doesn't matter to me.
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These 'cheap' SSDs really make me consider going the route of replacing my cd drive in my laptop with one as my boot drive. From what I understand, having your documents and media on a traditional magnetic drive doesn't really slow down the boost gained from having apps and the OS on an SSD. Anyone have experience doing this (specifically in a MacBook Pro)?
I have that setup on my desktop, and it's a considerable improvement over booting, starting applications, etc, off of the old Raptor 10k drive.
For a laptop it's more problematic since you can only fit one drive internally. When I upgrade my MBP (whenever the new ones come out), I'll probably put a larger SSD in it so there's some space for stuff you need to have on-drive.
You can get two hard drives on a MBP if you're willing to sacrifice your dvd drive:
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
I've done exactly this in my MBP and been very pleased. 80GB X25-M as the primary drive, and a larger disk as the secondary drive.
As an aside -- for whatever reason, I couldn't get my optical drive to work in the enclosure provided with the Optibay. I didn't investigate too much, since it just doesn't matter to me.