New SSD (2014) and Macbook pro 4.1 compatability
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Given current prices, I would like to upgrade my hard drive on my early 2008, Macbook Pro (4.1, pre-unibody) and also upgrade my OS (Snow Leopard to Yosemite).
The hard drive in this Macbook pro has a Sata I connection and I am wondering what my best SSD options are in 2014.
I am most concerned about issues of potential backward compatibility of Sata III with SataI.
I understand Sata III should be be backward compatible with Sata I, but I've seen that some people have had issues with this.
So I am wondering if anyone has actually made this upgrade with any of the newer SSD drives that are available (Samsung 840 Evo, SanDisk Extreme Pro, Crucial m550) and how it has worked out?
I understand OWC sells compatible drives, but given the great prices on these newer drives, I am leaning towards a more current drive with all it's modern goodness (longevity+controller) with the understanding that my Sata I connection will be a bottleneck.
I am also curious about whether I should just look for older Sata II SSDs? For this I would need recommendations.
Thank you very much in advance. And if there is anything I've failed to consider, feel free to let me know.
I have installed a SanDisk SSD with great success. At the same time I removed the optical drive which doubled the SATA speed. Here are the stats from my system:
Vendor:
NVidia
Product:
MCP79 AHCI
Link Speed:
3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed:
3 Gigabit
Physical Interconnect:
SATA
Description:
AHCI Version 1.20 Supported
SanDisk SDSSDXPS480G:
Capacity:
480.1 GB (480,103,981,056 bytes)
Model:
SanDisk SDSSDXPS480G
Revision:
X21100RL
Serial Number:
143631400200
Native Command Queuing:
Yes
Queue Depth:
32
Removable Media:
No
Detachable Drive:
No
BSD Name:
disk0
Medium Type:
Solid State
TRIM Support:
No
Partition Map Type:
GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:
Verified
Volumes:
EFI:
Capacity:
209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name:
disk0s1
Content:
EFI
Volume UUID:
0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B
SanDisk:
Capacity:
479.11 GB (479,110,004,736 bytes)
Available:
347.42 GB (347,417,059,328 bytes)
Writable:
Yes
File System:
Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:
disk0s2
Mount Point:
Content:
Apple_HFS
Volume UUID:
FA84107F-322D-37F3-BE2F-779C43F45EAB
Recovery HD:
Capacity:
650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name:
disk0s3
Content:
Apple_Boot
Volume UUID:
D22A1C35-6C0C-3D7E-A496-EC53E520CE58
Results
372.27
System Info
Xbench Version
1.3
System Version
10.10.1 (14B25)
Physical RAM
8192 MB
Model
MacBookPro5,3
Drive Type
SanDisk SDSSDXPS480G
Disk Test
372.27
Sequential
236.05
Uncached Write
362.92
222.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write
291.38
164.86 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read
120.27
35.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
409.21
205.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random
880.18
Uncached Write
1265.59
133.98 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write
542.25
173.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read
1628.39
11.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
771.54
143.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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