Its been while since I’ve posted an update to this site. An appropriate post would be an update to the status of the OCZ Solid State drive installed in my 24″ iMac. Overall, I am very impressed with the performance of this drive, but initially encountered some issues with system lockup when trying to wake from sleep. The symptom is that MacOS would goto sleep. If it happened on a screen blank, no big deal; however, when waking up from a deeper sleep mode, I found I was presented with the password prompt, but after entering my password, the system would just hang and never return to a working OS state without an actual power cycle. After trying to tweak out the power saving settings, I settled on turning off all power saving features in MacOS except for the Screen Blank feature. Thus far, I have had no wake-from-sleep issues since.

In addition to this bug, I copied over my VMWare Fusion Virtual Server running ArchLinux from an external driver over to the SSD. The VM not only boots quicker, but performs at least 50% faster than it did on the external FireWire disc.