What SSD can I use with my mid-2010 MacBook White?

I put an OWC in a 2010 MacBook. It worked fine.

Any one you want. There are any number of good ones that will work including OCZ, Samsung, OWC, Seagate, HGST, Toshiba just to name a few. The device need only be a 2.5" SATA drive with 3.0 Gb/s or 6.0 Gb/s interface that is downward compatible. It must be not more than 12.5 mm high in order to fit.

Yes, pretty much so. Modern SSDs are not much different between makers. Of all the developers of SSDs arguably Samsung is the technology leader whose drives have lasted longer in all the various benchmarks. For you use stick to the Samsung 840 line. Although the 850 line uses 6.0 Gb/s interfaces, they have two lines, 850 and 850 Pro. One is not particularly compatible with some Macs, but I don't remember which. Surely you can find out on Google. But for your old computer it makes little sense to spend money on an SSD at the cutting edge when your computer can't take advantage of it. The only rationale would be if you would expect to move it into a new computer. Unfortunately, the new Macs don't use these SSDs. So there would not be much reason to plan on using it in a new machine - any machine from 2012 Retina to the present.

Before you buy check in System Profiler to determine if your Macbook uses the Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller. If it does you'll want to stick with either SSD's that don't use Sandforce or are SATA 3Gb/s. Many 6Gb/s SSD's will only operate at 1.5Gb/s due to a conflict with the MCP79 controller. Samsung doesn't use Sandforce and OWC sells good 3G drives.

theratter wrote:

Any one you want. There are any number of good ones that will work including OCZ, Samsung, OWC, Seagate, HGST, Toshiba just to name a few. The device need only be a 2.5" SATA drive with 3.0 Gb/s or 6.0 Gb/s interface that is downward compatible. It must be not more than 12.5 mm high in order to fit.

Stick to 9.5 mm or less, it is very difficult to fit a larger one.