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ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD is on sale for $199 at Amazon.

ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD is on sale for $199 at Amazon. I paid $249 for the ADATA S599 Sandforce 128 GB SSD back in late October and installed it on my 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7. It has been a great experience so far. The 128GB of storage space is relatively small, but I’ve learned to organize files better. Having an external FireWire 800 drive is really handy.

Forty-five days into using the an SSD on my MacBoo Pro, I highly recommend it to anyone.

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ADATA S599 SandForce SSD and MacBook Pro.

The ADATA S599 SandForce SSD has finally arrived. I’m really thankful to Amazon.com customer service for rushing the second unit my way after the first one got lost in transit. I ended up with another unit which was purchased from Newegg.com.

Hard-drive installation on Unibody MacBook Pro is much easier compared to the previous MacBook Pro models. Eight screws on the bottom plate, two screws on the hard drive bracket and four screws on the hard drive itself. It took about 10 minutes for me to complete the swap, not counting the picture taking time.

Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the SSD-equipped MacBook Pro went smoothly.

I am pretty impressed with the speed improvement. Mac OS X took about 14 seconds to boot. Most applications including Photoshop CS5, Word 2011 and iTunes 10 launch within one second.

I will post more about ADATA S599 SandForce SSD wihtin a week or so.

I also will review G-Skill Phoenix Pro SandForce SSD.