Category: Hard Drives

Seagate Momentus XT: Apple Support Communities

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Seagate Momentus XT: Apple Support Communities. So the bottom line here seem to be that more people had problems than success with this. I would avoid this drive, even though generally I have had good experiences with Seagate. It seems to have issues with vibration which isn’t helpful since it is supposed to be a laptop drive.

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SSD’s in MacBook Air may be slower than the stock drive

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Yes this is contrary to most of the results written at other blogs, but instead of considering the artificial benchmarks that are usually used, do real world testing. In these tests, the SSD was slower than the stock drive. You can read more at this article MacBook Air SSD upgrade provides big storage, mixed speed results.

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StorageSearch.com lists the top 20 SSD companies – Jan 2011 edition – StumbleUpon

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StorageSearch.com lists the top 20 SSD companies – Jan 2011 edition – StumbleUpon. This is a helpful list if you need to research SSD’s and thinking of buying one. Really almost any SSD will make a big difference in the performance and data safety of your work.

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