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    MBP no SATA II interface?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by TomK, Jul 2, 2008.

  1. TomK

    TomK Notebook Guru

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    Folks,

    I have the latest 15" and 17" versions of the MBP. I have been testing SSD and various HDD's in them for performance, etc.

    However, even though these HDD's I am testing with are all SATA-II with NCQ, the MBP will not do SATA-II it says 1.5 for each of these devices.

    I assume the controller does not support SATA-II? Am I missing something?

    Thanks,
    Tom
     
    TomK, Jul 2, 2008
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I believe the chipset does not support SATA II.
     
    ZaZ, Jul 2, 2008
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  3. XandeR803

    XandeR803 Newbie

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    Do you mind sharing your experiences with the ssd's in the MBP? I've seen rumors around the net that the current chipset in the MBP does not play nicely with SSD's and that there is not much of a speed benefit but I haven't seen any numbers to back it up. Any benchmarks you could run would be much appreciated.
     
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  4. TomK

    TomK Notebook Guru

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    Is Xbench the best tool to use to bench the speeds of the HDD/SSD on OSX?

    For me personally, I've used the Samsung I, Samsung II, OCZ, and Super Talent SSD's, and various 5400 and 7200 RPM's, and I have the newest 7200 WD Black and 7k320 320gb that I can bench against.

    I have SSD's in my Thinkpads, Dell X1330, and now my MBP's, I went with a 80GB HDD in my Air (I hate the speed of the air with that HDD btw). So far, the fastest and most noticeable SSD for me has been the 2nd gen Samsung/OCA 64GB model - it just tears anything up I toss at it.

    Not having the additional heat from an HDD in the MBP is a very big benefit for me.

    I'll run some benchmarks if you can point me to a good OSX tool to bench disk IO with.

    Thanks,
    Tom
     
    TomK, Jul 2, 2008
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  5. XandeR803

    XandeR803 Newbie

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    Sure we can start with xbench since that seems to be fairly common and doesn't take much time to run. I'm still pretty new to the mac world but perhaps some other people can chime in on disk benchmarks for mac os?
     
    XandeR803, Jul 3, 2008
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