[geeks] SSD for MacBook Pro

[hike]

Based on recommendations and personal experience, I have come up with two
candidates for an SSD for the hand-me-down MacBook Pro (2012-to-Present).
Prices are from Amazon.

(1) Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM)
for $170
(2) Crucial MX200 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive -
CT500MX200SSD1 for $200

Anyone want to recommend one over the other?

The Samsung lists having 32 Layer 3D V-NAND.  I have used a Crucial 240GB
M500 SSD with good results and would think the MX200 would be of similar
quality.


TIA

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 06/27/15 16:21, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I have no problem with a vendor charging to SUPPORT free software...
>
> Well, nor do I really.  That was Cygnus Solutions' business model.
> Fully supported custom ports of gcc.
>
>
> But that's not really what I'm talking about.  Red Hat ships outdated,
> crufty versions of major software packages (MySQL for one), yet leaps at
> the bleeding edge with crap like systemd that locks down Linux.  Their
> default MySQL configuration file for years has contained only one
> directive that actually DOES anything - and that one directive is
> *actively harmful*.  Red Hat is the reason why vast numbers of
> commercial servers out there running enterprise business sites and web
> storefronts are still using insecure MySQL 3 authentication.  Good gods,
> it was replaced, what, fifteen years ago?  Because it was realized *back
> then* that it was dangerously insecure.  It hasn't gotten any more
> secure since, but for fifteen years Red Hat continued (and still
> continues, I think) to make it the default.  Red Hat continued to ship
> MySQL 5.0 for two years after Oracle declared it end-of-life.  Then they
> did the same thing with 5.1.  MySQL 5.5 will be EOL this coming
> December; I think Red Hat is just now starting to ship it in RHEL7.
>
> Were you around for the Red Hat IPO and the subsequent frenzy of company
> acquisitions?  Red Hat acquired Cygnus Solutions because Red Hat wanted
> the prestige of being the official maintainer of GCC (which Cygnus was),
> then mismanaged it so badly that within a year, the GCC steering
> committee took the maintainership away and awarded it to Wind River
> Systems.  The very first thing they did after acquiring Cygnus was
> impose an eight-month hiring freeze.  A year after the freeze ended,
> they laid off essentially the entire release engineering department.
> They bought up ccvs, the *only* open-source e-commerce credit card
> verification package then in existence ...  then killed it.  At least
> one other - I don't remember which - of the companies acquired in the
> immediate post-IPO period, they bought "to fill out Red Hat's product
> line", and within 30 days of acquiring the company, had killed every
> single product it made and laid off every employee.  They basically
> bought a company that did not even compete with them, solely to destroy it.
>
> So, yeah.  Not really a fan.
>
>
>
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