Wintec FileMate 48GB Ultra ExpressCard Solid State Drive 3FMS4D48M-WR Review
October 11th, 2009
Wintec FileMate 48GB Ultra ExpressCard Solid State Drive 3FMS4D48M-WR Review from aaron barrus. Supercharged my Macbook Pro, Used in my Macbook Pro 17″ unibody. Since the cost of high performing laptop 2.5″ SSDs are still unacceptably high, I decided to try this.
The performance is stellar, and I love it! I use it as my boot device now, and the internal drive for data. Using SpeedTools for Mac has shown sequential read speeds ~100mb/sec, sequential writes ~65mb/sec. Random speeds depend on the block size of course, but for 64k random reads, 64mb/sec, 64k random writes, 20mb/sec. This greatly exceeds the stock boot drives stats, 40mb/sec read/write sequential, 6mb/sec read/write random on 64k blocks.
This results in noticeable speed improvements with the OS. Boot times, app load times, and spinning-beach-ball-of-death times are all greatly reduced.
I conclude that this is an excellent device to utilize SSD without the unrealistic price tag of current laptop 2.5″ SSD drives.
An additional bonus is that, using several, it is easy to boot any OS I want to: one card for Mac, one for windows. I can also pop my card out and put it into somebody else’s mac to diagnose or operate their machine with my OS. I am in love with this card and will be buying more.
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