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Way to go, Chief Twit. - John Durham

128 gigs is just too small. I can fill that up in a heartbeat and wouldn't want to have to lug around an external data drive all the time. - Akiva Moskovitz

Have you installed Jaunty Jackalope yet? Recomend? - Jon Tatum

Yeah - I could fill that up in a week :) - Roberto Bonini

You should try using two SSDs in a RAID0 array now. =) http://is.gd/uw0V - ronin

The pros and cons of SSDs http://tinyurl.com/9qvwyd - Bob Townsend

When a 512GB is affordable for me I'll take the plunge - Victor Panlilio from Nambu

128GB SSD is the biggest in 2.5" SATA case. It'll be some years still before 500+GB SSDrives become a reality. - ianf ⌘

Nice. Is that kind of tight for space? What do you use for your outboard storage? - JasonInNJ

Ianf, I'm willing to wait. - Akiva Moskovitz

Willing. Noted, filed, folded, spindled, mutilated. - ianf ⌘

Awesome - tomit

SWEET! - johnny frederiksen

Jon, I did an in-place upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 - no problems at all... ymmv - Chris Heath

Leo, MCE Technologies has a adapter to replace the optical drive in the macbook pro with a hard drive. This would give you two drives in your MBP. The SSD and the orginal HD http://www.mcetech.com/optibay... - Joseph Woodcock

Can you install and SSD in the MCE optibay and leave the old HD in place while using the SSD permanently as the startup drive? - Brian of London

@Brian Yes you can. I'm doing that right now. - ronin from iPhone

The speed and quietness are nice but for now I'll stick with more drive space. - Johann Diaz from Nambu

Leo, can you write up how you did the install of this drive and the swap of the superdrive for the 500g drive on one of your blogs somewhere? - Alan Alpar

Currently unavailable at Amazon - David J Lowe

http://www.google.com/product... looks like it's available somewhere... [edit: well maybe not... after following that link here: http://www.powermax.com/parts... it says to call for availability... so maybe] - Chris Heath

Alan: this may be what you're looking for: http://www.macworld.com/article... or maybe something like this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthr... - Chris Heath

Leo may chime in here, but I'm pretty sure he picked the Corsair on the recommendation of Allyn Malventano and Ryan Shrout over at PC Perspective as a result of conversations with them on the PC Per podcast / TWiCH. Allyn's SSD guide is here: http://www.pcper.com/article... I think tech's evolved quite a bit in the past seven months or so since Leo did this upgrade, and the PC Per "Dream System" is currently spec'd with an Intel 80GB Intel X25M G2 http://www.pcper.com/hwlb.... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, i'm pretty sure you're correct that Leo chose that corsair based on Allyn's reco -- IIRC, the intel's are preferred, but are pricey, so Allyn reco's the corsair for just about the same performance for a lesser price.... and like you said that was a while ago and tech has evolved and prices have probably dropped as well - Chris Heath