Solid improvement in my system, July 29, 2012

OCZ's new Vertex 4 drive is probably the fastest current SSD under most common consumer usage purposes. It is blazing fast and has none of the blue screen of death (BSOD) issues of previous drives using Sandforce controllers. OCZ is now using a new Marvel/Indilinx controller with 25nm MLC NAND flash memory. Therefore, OCZ is confident enough to give this drive a 5 year warranty. This is my second SSD and it blows the previous one out of the water. Be aware that almost all of the negative reviews on this drive are from before the 1.5 firmware update (which is now preinstalled).Right now, the top three SSDs (best selling and best reviews) on Amazon are the OCZ Vertex 4, Samsung 830, and the Crucial M4. The Passmark benchmark scores are as follows: 3589 for the Vertex 4, 3230 for the Samsung 830, and 2409 for the best Crucial M4. Passmark averages all submitted test samples so it is not very sensitive to outliers.The Vertex 4 has an amazing 120k...

UPDATE 9/5/12A month since the last update and still going strong! Zero problems so far, still have 100% drive life remaining (according to S.M.A.R.T.), and I've stopped even considering the possibility that anything bad is going to happen to this drive. My notebook may be heavy and chunky compared to today's ultrabooks, but with my Vertex 4 in it it's a true road warrior and I've been commuting with it to campus now that school has started up again.I'll see you again at the six month mark if all goes well!UPDATE 8/6/12It's been over a week since installation and I haven't had a single problem. Any issues I mentioned in my review seem to have been one-offs and have not repeated themselves. As a result, and as promised, I'm bumping my rating up to 5 stars. I've also changed the title from "Solid but not overwhelming improvement in my system" to "Solid improvement in my system", along with a few references to the title in the review...

I bought this for my early 2011 macbook pro and mid 2009 mbp and it works great but there are some steps to getting the drive up to date and working.**UPDATE** works great with Mountain Lion 10.8Here are some instructions on what to do for people who want to know about making this drive work with the mbp.0. Backup all data you want from your old drive because you wont have it anymore after you remove it1. take out old drive and replace with your new SSD (look for youtube videos on how to do this)2. power on the laptop while holding the "option" key3. connect the the internet and choose internet recovery4. when you get into the install screen open disk utilities and select the drive5. create a new (1 partition) and format your new drive as Mac OS Journaled6. close disk utility and install Lion onto the driveok great now your drive is working and the OS is installed, but the drive is NOT updated to the latest...