how does this perform against the Micro Center brand 64gb SSD?
Anand reviewed this drive. The Micro Center branded drive is an Adata based on the SF1200 series.
The drives are probably around the same in sequential performance, but the Kingston loses badly in random performance. This would be true for both reads and writes. Note that it still beats hard drives by quite a bit in randoms, even if it loses to faster SSDs.
In benchmarks that emulate "real world" performance, the drive does quite well and is usually in the top half of the drives tested - prior to the latest SATA 6G drives.
AnandTech Bench comparing the drives
Okay, the Kingston V+100 was a 128GB model and the Sandforce was a 100GB OCZ Agility 2, but it might be close enough. Just remember that
not always but usually larger drives perform better.
would these be good on a macpro?
AnandTech's review of the latest Macbook Pro says:
In the MacBook Air Apple standardized on a Toshiba controller, delivering performance nearly identical to Kingston's SSDNow V+100. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple used the same controller in the new MacBook Pros. The SSDs are still 3Gbps and will be a huge improvement over the standard hard drive, but just know that you aren't getting the best performance possible. In exchange for the price premium, what you do get is a drive that Apple will support completely (and also official TRIM support, no 3rd party drives have TRIM support under OS X).
So, on the one hand it uses pretty much the same controller. On the other hand, Apple has their system locked down so that they only do Trim on
their SSD. Now, this controller worked well previously without Trim, because of aggressive garbage collection. Thus, might be a moot issue.
tl:dr Yes, would work reasonably well in a Mac.
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