Sysconfig's Blog » Expresscard/34 http://sysconfig.org.uk FreeBSD, Linux, Virtualisation, Resilience, Scalability, Storage, and other (random) things Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:41:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Filemate SolidGo 48GB EC/34 http://sysconfig.org.uk/2009/10/filemate-solidgo-48gb-ec34/ http://sysconfig.org.uk/2009/10/filemate-solidgo-48gb-ec34/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:08:37 +0000 admin http://sysconfig.ossafe.org/?p=202 photo

To cut a long story short:

  • massive speed improvement
  • excellent for work with many small files (compile times for big projects reduced significantly, to give one example)
  • good value for money (~ £125)

And now the down-sides:

  • getting very hot
I have been using it for 4 months, until it died today. I’m almost sure that it was the temperature together with the very slim design of my MacBook Pro. So I can definitely not recommend this solid state drive for 2008 MacBook Pro’s, but it may work for others.
It’s a shame…
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