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InterHmai
06-17-2009, 06:19 AM
Tested a 60gb Summit on a Mac Pro (2007 2.66 Dual Core Xeon)
*Has full SATA 3gbps according to Sys Info.

OSX 10.5.7

Loaded a pre-made image we have in the office for new machines. OSX loaded in 7 seconds from the gray apple screen, and 2 seconds from login to desktop. Tried out Office 2008, Vectorworks 2009, Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, and Firefox. They all ran really fast, no unusual stutters, hangs, or beach balls.

XBench
Results were close to my home Win7 machine (http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58233).

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10695&stc=1&d=1245247858

iStat Pro
I also ran the iStat Pro widget, since Tony asked about it in a similar thread.
Here's the screenshot from it:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10696&stc=1&d=1245247858
Tony
06-17-2009, 07:10 AM
Sleep/Hibernate?
InterHmai
06-17-2009, 07:53 AM
Sleep worked fine.

I don't have a laptop to test Hibernate.
GStrike-
06-17-2009, 06:55 PM
Tested a 60gb Summit on a Mac Pro (2007 2.66 Dual Core Xeon)
*Has full SATA 3gbps according to Sys Info.


Intel ICH8-M AHCI:

Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH8-M AHCI
Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

does this mean that I won't have the full SATA 3Gbps even if I bought a ssd?

Is there a way to fix this?
harshw
06-18-2009, 12:04 AM
Intel ICH8-M AHCI:

Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH8-M AHCI
Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

does this mean that I won't have the full SATA 3Gbps even if I bought a ssd?

Is there a way to fix this?

That's the mobile variant. You have a laptop. The chip is downclocked to 1.5 Gbit/s and it wont do 3.0 Gbit/s so no, you cannot go over 150 mb/s even if the SSD can
InterHmai
06-18-2009, 07:32 AM
I had read if you order a newer MacBookPro with a regular hard drive, the SATA speed is capped to save battery life.

If you had ordered it to come with a SSD originally, it comes with the speed uncapped.

Although Apple hasn't commented, they'll probably release some form of an update that allows you to toggle the setting.
harshw
06-18-2009, 08:18 AM
I had read if you order a newer MacBookPro with a regular hard drive, the SATA speed is capped to save battery life.

If you had ordered it to come with a SSD originally, it comes with the speed uncapped.

Although Apple hasn't commented, they'll probably release some form of an update that allows you to toggle the setting.

This has NOT been confirmed. There are conflicting reports of people with SSD and 3 Gbit/s and of people with Apple CTO SSD still having SATA at 1.5 Gbit/s

Also, since the power savings is rather small - 0.2 watts maybe - I seriously doubt it was due to the need to conserve battery life. If indeed Apple says it was to conserve battery life, they need to fire some of their system designers !