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Comment on Meet The Asus VX2S Lamborghini Apple? by pepper

pepper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:08:47 +0000

If you follow the instructions laid out above, you should be able to make the partition using a legal copy of OS X 10.7.x.

Sorry, but we can’t send illegal copies of software.

Good luck!

Comment on Meet The Asus VX2S Lamborghini Apple? by Arnas

Arnas — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:20:49 +0000

HI, can you make DMG file of your installed partition and share with me?

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by pepper

pepper — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:38:08 +0000

No I didn’t need to disable hibernate, but I did tell OSX to use the standard hard drive for such things. I’ve also moved the swap file to the same. Honestly, using an SSD like this probably isn’t for the faint of heart, but it is possible and fast.

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by jiji

jiji — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:01:45 +0000

Out of curiosity, did any of you disable hibernate? I use an internal SSD for a boot drive, and I had to use Smart Sleep to disable hibernate. Notice that I do not mean “Sleep”, but “Hibernate”, which writes RAM to disc when the battery power gets low enough. Very buggy operation in OSX that is not SSD-friendly.

Comment on Join Nikki at the 2010 eco-rally. by Jeff Auge

Jeff Auge — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:15:39 +0000

You discribe the 2011 Rav in your article on the Tesla Toyota vehicle as a gas guzzler. I don't think a vehicle with a 28mpg rating is a guzzler

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by ben richards

ben richards — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:28:42 +0000

I also had to RMA my Wintec 48GB SSD – the replacement has been working just fine for 6 months at least.
In that regard it has been more reliable than the host MacBook Pro
If Wintec go faster or larger or produce a SATA adapter I’d buy into that too!
I posted my setup and experience here: forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=714310&page=3 (bigbadbenny)

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:10:28 +0000

I've been thinking about doing exactly this with my 2008 15" MBP, but the reviews I read have been very consistent – this is just not a good long-term speed solution because these little SSD's fail too often. Also, I read that the 24GB and 48GB versions use the motherboard's SATA connection, while the 32GB and 64GB FileMate's use a USB connection, making those two versions much slower and really no different than an external thumb drive. (This is right from Wintec's website, BTW.)

I wish it were different, but I know that were I to do this, I'd be just as disappointed as you all in a short time. Still, I'd love to know what your solutions have been!

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by Spudster

Spudster — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:33:24 +0000

Ooops, sorry. I assumed this blog would notify me when there were responses.

I bought mine from NewEgg, but had to go directly to the manufacturer for an RMA: http://wintecind.com

If your drive dies for good, go through them. Most distributors won’t be much help.

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by littleCollie

littleCollie — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:25:23 +0000

Wow. That's pretty neat. We'd love to know who you got the card from! (We've yet to hear anything from them)

Nikki.

(Maybe we could exchange emails to try and solve ours?)

Comment on Wintec Filemate SolidGo. 48GB. Anything but solid? by Spudster

Spudster — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:42:16 +0000

I submitted an RMA request and they sent me a RAR package which has some tools in it that low-level format the device. Worked like a champ! A couple caveats:

1) It must be done under Windows with the device plugged in via USB. I accomplished this using a virtual machine under Parallels Desktop.

2) The mean it when they say "Make sure the device is the only thing plugged in via USB." My first flash attempt failed, but when the device was on the cable by itself, it worked.

3) This will completely erase any data that was on the device. No surprise here. Thankfully I learned the lesson of having good backups long ago (Thank you ChronoSync!), so this was not a big deal for me.

Now I just have to cross my fingers and hope the device lasts longer than 3 months.

Oh, on my research in buying a more name-brand unit, you won't find anything in this size from any other vendor. I think there were a few 32GB devices from other companies, if you want a full selection, you're stuck with 16GB or smaller.