New 32gb KingSpec KSD-PA25.6-032MS SSD arrived yesterday, only 7 days from China to UK 
5 hours last night to do a Carbon Copy Cloner to the new drive in a USB enclosure, and test booting from the USB drive once cloned - it boots fine using the Option key at startup, but not recognized in System Prefs -> Startup Disk
10 minutes spent installing it in the Pismo this morning, half of that time was looking for a flipping screw on the carpet.
Booted straight away, seems very snappy so far.
Before the new drive I took some timings for various actions - boot-up time to desktop, starting Dashboard, opening a large Excel document, Camino startup time and opening a .jpg with Gimp.
Boot-up seems 25% faster, and most other actions about 20% quicker, except for some reason opening Dashboard took 20% longer (but I think it may be iStat was looking for a HDD temp which of course the SSD cannot supply).
Battery life should also be even better but only time will tell.
On the whole well pleased [] ]'> [] ]'> , just need to find out if I can get trim support, although according to Kingspec this drive already has automatic bad block management, not the same but helps when it gets a little more used.
Cheers
Hugh
Edit: Dashboard opening 20% faster now temp sensors disabled in iStat.
5 hours last night to do a Carbon Copy Cloner to the new drive in a USB enclosure, and test booting from the USB drive once cloned - it boots fine using the Option key at startup, but not recognized in System Prefs -> Startup Disk
10 minutes spent installing it in the Pismo this morning, half of that time was looking for a flipping screw on the carpet.
Booted straight away, seems very snappy so far.
Before the new drive I took some timings for various actions - boot-up time to desktop, starting Dashboard, opening a large Excel document, Camino startup time and opening a .jpg with Gimp.
Boot-up seems 25% faster, and most other actions about 20% quicker, except for some reason opening Dashboard took 20% longer (but I think it may be iStat was looking for a HDD temp which of course the SSD cannot supply).
Battery life should also be even better but only time will tell.
On the whole well pleased [
] ]'> [] ]'> , just need to find out if I can get trim support, although according to Kingspec this drive already has automatic bad block management, not the same but helps when it gets a little more used.Cheers
Hugh
Edit: Dashboard opening 20% faster now temp sensors disabled in iStat.