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Wish Apple was more forthcoming with what width and version of PCIe they’re using. With Apple’s new standard of using PCIe, the interface limit of ~550MB/s with SATA-600 is totally out the window. The real news is that usually at or just above 256GB you hit the limits of the interface or controller with conventional 2.5″ SSD’s. Go look at any model of SSD and compare the manufacturer’s specs of the 64GB model to the 256GB or 512GB model, and you’ll see a similar huge jump. More capacity usually means more NAND devices, which means more channels and more interleaving. Most models of SSD’s increase in speed as capacity goes up. I would be very interested in seeing Filevault benchmark performance comparison between equivalently spec’ed 11″ and 13″.
#WHAT KIND OF SSD FOR 2013 MAC BOOK AIR 11 INCH UPGRADE#
However, I do not want to switch from 11″ to 13″ just for the purpose of getting a better SSD, so I may end up just waiting a few months with my upgrade until the matter is clarified… I like the performance of the new 13″, but I am not so thrilled of the same of the new 11″, from what I have seen.
I currently have 2011 11″ Air and I’m considering upgrading. It appears that Apple ships all 11″ with Marvel/Sandisk, while all 13″ go out with Samsung even when you spec both systems exactly the same way. There are some rumors on the Net that the Samsung controller+NAND combo that ships in the 13″ gives much higher performance with incompressible data (music/movies and/or Filevault) than the 11″.
#WHAT KIND OF SSD FOR 2013 MAC BOOK AIR 11 INCH FULL#
I could use a USB 3.0 Envoy enclosure, but I’d rather not sacrifice what few ports available and instead, take advantage of thunderbolt’s greater speed and daisy-chaining ability.įor people who use MacBook Air for business (like myself) it would be very helpful if someone could benchmark fully loaded 11″ and 13″ (i7/8GB/512GB) with Filevault (for full disk encryption). A thunderbolt version of the Envoy enclosure would be nice, but currently, all bus-powered thunderbolt adapters on the market only have one thunderbolt port.
#WHAT KIND OF SSD FOR 2013 MAC BOOK AIR 11 INCH PORTABLE#
The Seagate Backup Plus Portable Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE128) only has one thunderbolt port making daisy-chaining a secondary monitor impossible. This allows me to connect my MacBook Air to a secondary monitor and still use the Desktop Thunderbolt Adapter with a 2.5-inch SSD as a scratch disk. The reason for the SATA enclosure is because I also purchased a Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE129) which has a thunderbolt pass-thru port.
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That being said, what I’d like to know is if there will be a similar update to the Envoy SSD enclosures as well, and preferably an enclosure with a SATA connector similar to this enclosure for the 2012 MacBook Pro retina SSD:
#WHAT KIND OF SSD FOR 2013 MAC BOOK AIR 11 INCH WINDOWS 8.1#
I would then use the stock SSD as an external Windows 8.1 or Linux bootable drive. Performance wise, assuming the OWC SSDs are comparable to the 512GB Samsung SSD, I would definitely be interested in upgrading my 2013 MacBook Air (i7, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) with at least a 256GB upgrade. I know I am a bit late to this thread but I have a couple questions that I’d like answered. 2013 MacBook Air 13-inch with 512GB Samsung PCIe SSD 2013 MacBook Air 11-inch with 128GB SanDisk/Marvell PCIe SSDĢ013 MacBook Air 13-inch with 512GB Samsung PCIe SSD 2013 MacBook Air 11-inch with 128GB SanDisk/Marvell PCIe SSD And that 400MB/s write difference may influence your purchasing decision until we have an upgrade available for these models. UPDATE: OWC Now Offers SSD Upgrades for 2013-Current MacBook Air & MacBook Pro with Retina display models and OWC Reveals Apple Boot Camp Support for SSDsĪs evidenced by the following benchmarks, the performance difference is huge. It is our assumption that the write performance is mainly due to NAND densities and not brand performance in these cases, but we’ll know more once we can run the same tests on a few more models. The 512GB Samsung SSD found in our 13-inch model offers roughly a 400MB/s increase in write speeds over the 128GB SanDisk/Marvell SSD as our 11-inch model was configured. In the meantime, we have noticed a vast difference in write speeds between the two SSD offerings that we’ve received so far. The SSD form factor has indeed changed as Apple is the first to adopt and incorporate PCIe storage, but rest assured we are working hard and fast to get you the upgrades you’ve come to rely on from OWC. We’ve received two models of the new MacBook Air yesterday and have started some of our initial testing on the machines.
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