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Amazing performance…

I bought this for my late 2008 MacBook 13″ since it was about half the price of the Apple upgrade and it has performed beyond expectation. I thought It would be a similar performer compared to the included standard 160GB drive considering the pausing reported by others. Instead it completely transformed the performance of my 2.0GHz MacBook. It also seems OSX may not suffer the pauses reported with Vista and XP, at least I didn’t notice any.

Everything I do is now faster: starting apps, opening my Mail.app with a couple-a-gigs of email, sleep, start-up, Photoshop CS3 (starting, loading, saving), and most importantly: my projects build MUCH faster now in Xcode. My MacBook is a completely different machine with this drive, so much faster.

However, after 1 month of wonderful ownership the controller in the drive seems to have fried itself. OCZ has said they would like to give me a new one and I am now waiting for the next step in the process.

So, now I am back to the original 160GB drive and I only use the MacBook now when mobile. Can’t wait for the replacement OCZ SSD!

Things can break (though I didn’t expect it with a non-mechanical hard drive) but considering the great performance boost the drive gave when it worked I still give it 4/5, if the drive didn’t break it would be 5/5 and I’ll see if I can revisit this review when the replacement arrives!

UPDATE:

Ok, it took quite some time, but the replacement SSD arrived a couple of weeks ago.
Installed it and clean-installed the OS and all my Apps and it has performed flawlessly since.
Shame I can’t edit the star rating up to 5!

Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, OCZ Technology 120 GB Core Series V2 SATA II 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive SSD OCZSSD2-2C120G Electronics, was written by J. A. Verbeek.

The average rating for this item is 3.7 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.