The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    SSD in Black Macbook?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Sahin, Sep 14, 2010.

  1. Sahin

    Sahin ---------------

    Reputations:
    156
    Messages:
    1,578
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Any try it? I am thinking about picking up a used one, and if I do I want to put a SSD hard drive but I was curious what the connection speed between the hard drive and the motherboard is.
     
    Sahin, Sep 14, 2010
    #1
  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

    Reputations:
    3,870
    Messages:
    4,089
    Likes Received:
    649
    Trophy Points:
    181
    The speed is SATA 1.5, which is 150MBPS.
     
    Nick, Sep 14, 2010
    #2
  3. Sahin

    Sahin ---------------

    Reputations:
    156
    Messages:
    1,578
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Ok would be useless, thanks.
     
    Sahin, Sep 14, 2010
    #3
  4. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

    Reputations:
    3,870
    Messages:
    4,089
    Likes Received:
    649
    Trophy Points:
    181
    Not necessarily, most mechanical hard drives have a write speed of about 30MBs, thats much lower than the 150MBPS limit. An SSD would write around(depends on SSD) at, at least 60MBPS. It would be much snappier with an SSD.
     
    Nick, Sep 14, 2010
    #4
  5. Sahin

    Sahin ---------------

    Reputations:
    156
    Messages:
    1,578
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Mine writes at 160MBPS on my G50vt-x1 and read is 260MBPS, thing is though the main thing holding me off from this purchase is that ram is capped at 2GB. Not the 150MBPS SSD Speeds (I should have indicated that in the post).

    I want to get something (a Mac) as a stop Gap solution till the Ivy Bridge Macbook Pro's come out because so far from what I gather Sandy Bridge does not have to much to offer (maybe even wait till Haswell comes out :eek: ) before I drop $2500, but right now I need a more portable laptop then my current Asus G50vt-x1.
     
    Sahin, Sep 15, 2010
    #5
  6. stylinexpat

    stylinexpat Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    454
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I had an old Black Macbook that I had sold to my friend. He thought it was a bit slow and I sold him y older OCZ Vertex SSD. Was a night and day difference after the SSD was installed. It does make a very big difference.
     
    stylinexpat, Sep 27, 2010
    #6