Hello!
I have MacBook Pro 15", early 2008 (not unibody) and now I plan to upgrade storage. Now I have 250GB 5400rpm HD drive SATA 1.5Gb/s.
The first question is what version of SATA I have? SATA II, or what?
Then second question: can I use SATA III with 6Gb/s for example or it will be just a waste of money? Or should I use SATA 3Gb/s better?
Thank you in advance,
Vit
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB SDRAM, 250GB HD, Nvidia GeForce 860
You would best investigate this drive:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/So lid_State_Pro/
A SATA III with 6G/s is best suited for the 2011 MBP. Your 2008 MBP is ideal with the one linked here. I love Apple products, but OWC is unrivaled in reliability, and a recent price reduction brings the total to about $427 for 240gigs with a three year warranty.
Thank you!
What do you think about http://www.corsair.com/force-series-f115-solid-state-hard-drive.html
It supports TRIM (that OS X Lion will support for extending life of SSD), and this SSD I have in my local store, so I can get it tomorrow, which is big advantage 🙂
Both are top-notch SSDs, equally recommendable. The OWC line is somewhat cheaper, however.
Your 2008 MBP is very nice, but an SSD will give it new life.
Thanks. I'm going to check it tomorrow and write here how it is going 🙂
Bought SSD, but mac doesn't see it. I tried to install it inside or connect it via UBS, mac doesn't recognize it.
Weird. What could be the reason?
A very simple way to replace the hdd with the ssd: have the hdd in, connect the ssd in a separate holder (eg Icy Box), CLONE the hdd to ssd (eg with Carbon Copy Cloner), shutdown, take the hdd out and the ssd in, start: the MBP should start with the ssd. After that you could install Trim command:
http://lifehacker.com/5803331/how-to-enable-trim-on-your-macs-solid+state-drive.
There are several threads about installing the Trim command.
The Sata in your MBP is Sata I (1,5GB), so you could buy the 3GB/s variant which is downward compatible to 1,5GB/s.
success
Yes, but I prefer to install from ground on formatted disk to avoid some bugs especially when you upgade to the new version.
The problem was that the SSD was defective, so I replaced it and now new one works fine. I installed Lion GM on it btw. Works really smooth.
I.V.A.: What sites did you use to walk you through the install?
How were you able to install the SSD and then perform a fresh install of OS X?
SSD for MacBook Pro (early 2008)
