I ordered up an SSD drive for my Macbook Pro and just finished installing and testing its performance. It is mind blowingly fast – incredible.
My Macbook Pro’s specs are as follows:
- 2.8ghz Core 2 Duo
- 6gb RAM
- Late 2008 Model (expresscard model)
- All test performed plugged in while using the faster graphics card
- Hard Drive was a 300gb 7200rpm drive
- SSD drive is a 240gb OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD
Now for the results:
| Cold Start | |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 1:47.9 mins |
| SSD | 59.4 secs |
| Restart | |
| Hard Drive | 1:44.7 mins |
| SSD | 1:10.6 mins | Launch Photoshop CS5 Extended |
| Hard Drive | 16.2 seconds |
| SSD | 3 seconds |
| Lauch InDesign / Photoshop / Illustrator (CS5 Same time) | |
| Hard Drive | 1:54.4 mins |
| SSD | 10.3 seconds |
| Load Dashboard & Widgets | |
| Hard Drive | 16.9 seconds |
| SSD | 3.5 seconds |
As you can imagine I am quite happy with these results. (Please note that during each restart I had to enter my password, that takes me about 1.5 seconds on average.)