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Benchmarks of OCZ Vertex on Mac OSX
04/12/09 23:59 Filed in: SSD benchmarks | OCZ SSD
For SSD benchmark freaks: Here's an absolutely great post at the OCZ Technology Forums: Macintosh based SSD tests run on a Vertex Series SSD in a Unibody MacBook.
Benchmarked are Apple's Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
as well as Windows 7 running via Apple's BootCamp - and also compares the OCX Vertex Series SSD laptop drives
to an excellent alternative to an SSD, one of the fastest conventional platter SATA drives: the WD Scorpio Series Hard Drive 2.5" spinning disk drives.
Impressive SSD read-write numbers, app launch timings, and SSD speed improvements are detailed. If you weren't sure if you were ready for a solid-state drive on your Macintosh - this should convince you. Here's a tidbit on launch times of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 - which has become quite big and bloated:
Benchmarked are Apple's Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
as well as Windows 7 running via Apple's BootCamp - and also compares the OCX Vertex Series SSD laptop drives to an excellent alternative to an SSD, one of the fastest conventional platter SATA drives: the WD Scorpio Series Hard Drive 2.5" spinning disk drives.Impressive SSD read-write numbers, app launch timings, and SSD speed improvements are detailed. If you weren't sure if you were ready for a solid-state drive on your Macintosh - this should convince you. Here's a tidbit on launch times of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 - which has become quite big and bloated:
| 1st run (WD Scorpio HDD) | 1st run (OCZ Vertex SSD) | |
| Entourage | 18.6 sec | 5 sec |
| Mac Excel | 5.1 sec | 2.2 sec |
| MS Word | 8.5 sec | 2.1 sec |
| Powerpoint | 4.9 sec | 3.5 sec |
