“The new MacBook Pros, along with all of their other speedy goodness, have SATA3 interface for storage access (but not to the optical drive),” Seth Weintraub reports for 9 to 5 Mac. “Apple’s build to order solid state drives are SATA II and are very speedy.”
“However, Macotakara popped in a Micron RealSSD SATA III drive and got some pretty incredible speeds,” Weintraub reports. “In fact, it benchmarked at about double Apple’s BTO option(!!) on read speed (450MB/sec) and 50% faster writes (260MB/sec).”
Weintraub reports, “That means it takes just over 2 seconds to read a Gigabyte and under 4 seconds to write one. That is fast.”
More information in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Man those speeds are insane! Talk about turbocharged. Love me one of those, that’s for sure.
Now put 4 of those in a housing with a RAID controller and a Thunderbolt port.
Sparks will fry out your arse…
At some point it will be the software that is the bottleneck for the speeds. Rendering takes a good deal of processor speed and ram but with SSD speeds like those makes me wonder what benchmarks would look like for final cut , maya or after effects renderings.
Ha! My ex-brother-in-law works there. I should hit him up for one of these at his cost.
Yeah, I’m sure your *ex* BiL will be thrilled to help.
Seth Weintraub, Google fan boy.
Think Before You Click.