In my recent review (http://www.macnews.com/2010/05/27/review-owc-extreme-pro-re-ssd-blazingly-fast-and-expensive) of the OWC Extreme Pro RE SSD [Solid State Drive] I said I loved the drive but “only” gave it an 8-out-of10 rating (I rarely bestow a nine and almost never a 10) because the price is somewhat prohibitive (the 100GB model is US$400). Was I being fair?
As someone who disagreed with my rating pointed out, “if you ever did a processor upgrade in a G3 or G4 machine (or even earlier) wasn’t the cost worth it to rev up the machine?” The answer to that is, of course, “yes.” And I’d LOVE to have the 2TB hard drive in my iMac replaced with an SSD of similar volume (that is something that will be an affordable option sometime down the road).
So here’s a recommendation for those that don’t want to pay the high sticker for higher capacity but still want to “drive a Ferrari”: get the 60GB for $219 and use it as a boot and app load drive and use an external drive for storage. Do that and $219 is pretty sweet for the gains you get.
— Dennis Sellers
