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We decided to conduct some basic tests to illustrate the performance differences between the standard hard drive and the Kingston V+100 64 GB solid state drive. We used a Macbook Pro 13 Model A1278 (2009) for these tests which features a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB 1066MHz RAM and a 160GB 5400rpm hard drive.
X Bench is a comprehensive benchmarking program developed for Mac OS X that contains within it a hard drive benchmarking tool. We will be using this to show the performance difference between the standard hard drive and the Kingston solid state drive. We used X Bench Version 1.3 in this test.
The scores achieved by the Kingston SSD are extremely impressive, in some cases over 600% better than those achieved by the stock mechanical drive.
Synthetic benchmarks are all well and good but most users will be wondering how upgrading to a solid state drive will improve their day to day computing experience on their Macbook.
In our real world tests we saw impressive performance improvements all round, especially in OS X boot time which was reduced by 40 seconds. The whole OS X user experienced seemed much more snappy with the Kingston SSD than with the original mechanical hard drive.
Nice idea, should help a lot of people who dont want to pay Apple £500 for a £100 drive 🙂
I always wondered how they got away with their SSD pricing. Lately it has dropped a little to be fair to them.
64gb is too small tbh. 96gb is a better idea.
Forgot upgrading your cheap made in taiwan apple computer; its made from scrap and discarded parts aniway and priced sky high by cancer better dead liar steve jobs.
Adding a US$200 SSD to your mac book would improve its price from US$50 to about US$200.
Anyway American assholes you would be better now now that Steve assJobs liar the menace is dead. Your fucking country would perhaps slowly come to its foot because you are one liar down. You have to contend with Negrobama for now.
I have installed my Kingston ssd, but now cannot get either my copy of snow leopard or mountain lion to install on it. Help?
Insert the old drive. put the new SSD into a USB enclosure. use carbon copy cloner to copy the internal drive to the SSD in the enclosure. Remove the old drive, replace with the new SSD.
No install needed.