SSD or not?

I love my SSD drive from OWC, it was expensive, but my os has been running incredible fast!

Wouldn't RAID1 be a better choice for your data (unless you have a separate backup)?

I have in addition two 2Gb HDs in Raid 1 for TimeMachine backups, yes ...

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RamJet offers several SSD's for the Mac Mini. Can these be installed by the user? I have a 2010 Mini with user-accessable RAM.

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I have one in my macpro and couldn't be more happy with it.
Me myself would not want to go back to a slow hdd.

People recommending a SSD with the Sandforce controller are right on the money. SSD drives work differently to traditional ones, and the disk itself holds a lot of logic regarding how stuff will be written. Once you have written once to every block on the drive (this does not mean the drive is full, it just will not understand files where deleted on a mac) writing will slow down - sometimes significantly.

Out of the after market drives the Sandforce based models suffer the least from writing on the long term. With some of them you might even end up with half or less the original performance (Intel does suffer less then the worst ones though).

The problem with Sandforce seems to be reliability though. Intel is very good in that regard. The most popular Sandforce drives are the OWC and OCZ Vertex 2.

Sandforce is coming out with a new model this summer which should be blazing fast. Intel is also coming out with a model that should offer up to twice the capacity for the same price, and the Intel should come out any moment now (note, you might have to wait for teh dust to settle before the prices come down to that level). Personally I'm waiting since I'd prefer 300GB of space and the biggest price reductions will probably come to that price point.

samsung 470 series the best one forever! I've the 256gb and I'm very happy! My old Macbook Pro 4,1 is resurrected!! I love ssd!

Failures, when they happen with SSDs, are instant - no warnings.

I'm using two SSDs from OWC - on in my MacBook pro 13" the other in my 2007 Mac Pro. Both as boot discs. The Mac Pro SSD failed after less than three months use. Total failure - grey screen. Thank God for Time Machine.

I'm waiting on a warranty replacement, not sure if I'll install it right away...
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The factory SSD on my MBP is blazing fast and still running strong after several months. No matter what kind of drive you choose, always perform regular back-ups with Time Machine or the software of your choice!
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