SSD from apple laptop have some questions

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had the OCZ 64gb core with the JMicron controller. but since that trauma havent bought anything.

my brother gave me his apple laptop ssd Toshiba THNSNC128GBSJ

not sure how to go about installing it. do I have to reformat it, do some garbage cleanup. I know new and used HDD installations but never did a used ssd.

can anyone tell me what write/read speeds this has? is this considered a decent drive?

will install W7 on it, although ive been very happy with XP. but I realize W7 will give the SSD better control.

any help appreciated.
 
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The main advantage to SSD's is their random read/write performance, Access Times that are basically non-existent VS a HDD's ~5ms. If anyone was after purely Sequential Read/Write performance, than RAID'ing HDD's is a far better option than SSD's.
Also thats what you get for pulling a drive out of an Apple product. They go out of date pretty quickly, from what I can tell that's a SATAII drive.

Basically yep, do everything you would with a HDD.
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SSD's work in the same way HDD's do, just using different underlying technology. There should be no difference between them in terms of setting it up.
Just make sure that Windows is set to not de-fragment the drive, its quite damaging to SSD's and has no performance benefit. Also that TRIM is enabled, there are numerous guides out there for how to tell if it is.

According to Toshiba, expect ~220MB/s read speeds with that drive, who knows the Write speeds. Might be good to just look up the Notebook that it came from's performance, no doubt there will be a review somewhere.
http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd/solid_state_drives/product_detail.jsp?productid=428
 
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thanks for the quick reply.

220..? crap thats slow as freak not much more than my VR..with todays 550 SF2 speeds, this thing is a slow poke.

my brother send me his left over garbage haha bless his soul.

so install cd format and install yes?
 
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The main advantage to SSD's is their random read/write performance, Access Times that are basically non-existent VS a HDD's ~5ms. If anyone was after purely Sequential Read/Write performance, than RAID'ing HDD's is a far better option than SSD's.
Also thats what you get for pulling a drive out of an Apple product. They go out of date pretty quickly, from what I can tell that's a SATAII drive.

Basically yep, do everything you would with a HDD.
 
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I dont have sata2 6gb/s anyways so its ok. just I hope that writing isnt excruciatingly painful like the POS OCZ core where it lagged like crazy and took 30 minutes to install photoshop.
 
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