Will SSD drives works?

Hi all,
Will SSD Drives works in a MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2008) and also in a Mac Pro (Early 2008).
Is there anyone who did the test already?
Thanks for your reply !!
Bart Mulier

A slight problem with the Mac Pro is that these are 2.5 inch form factor drives, and they do not attach happily to the stock drive Bay sleds. There are a number of alternatives, including:
install "loose" in the second Optical bay, if available
remove the metal enclose and just install the "bare" circuit card.
buy a 2.5/3.5 Mac Pro sled for your model Mac Pro
N.B. there are TWO models of sleds, so two models of replacement sleds -- be sure to get the correct one for your Mac Pro
Buy an ICE Box or similar mechanical enclosure that adapts the 2.5 drive to 3.5 mounting for a Mac Pro
and one more...
... OWC sells some drives in 3.5 form factor, but you have to know to look for them.

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Will this drive work in firewire?

I have a 80GB Western WD00BB-OOJKCO drive as my backup. If I upgrade to the new iMac will I be able to use this drive as a firewire and upload all my applications back onto my new iMac? I presently do my backup with Carbon Copy Cloner as a bootable backup.
I know I would have to purchase a firewire case for the drive, but will this drive work in a firewire case?
Thanks

Don't see why not assuming you have all the files required by your applications fully backed up. Some applications install data outside of the Applications folder. Some record serial numbers into invisible files. If all the data are not properly transferred then you may need to reinstall some applications.
If you are moving from a PPC to an Intel Mac, then I suggest reading the following;
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3 or G4 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
The same problem will exist for any hardware drivers such as mouse software unless the drivers have been compiled as universal binaries. For third-party mice the current choices are USB Overdrive or SteerMouse. Contact the developer or manufacturer of your third-party mouse software to find out when a universal binary version will be available.
Also be careful with some backup utilities and third-party disk repair utilities. Disk Warrior (does not work), TechTool Pro (pre-4.5.1 versions do not work), SuperDuper (newest release works), and Drive Genius (untested) may not work properly on Intel-Macs. The same caution may apply to the many "maintenance" utilities that have not yet been converted to universal binaries.
Before migrating or installing software on your Intel-Mac check MacFixit's Rosetta Compatibility Index.
Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
Transferring data with Setup Assistant - Migration Assistant FAQ
Because Migration Assistant isn't the ideal way to migrate from PowerPC to Intel Macs, using Target Disk Mode or copying the critical contents to CD and DVD or an external hard drive will work better when moving from PowerPC to Intel Macs.
Basically the instructions you should follow are:
1. Backup your data first. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
3. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
4. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
4. Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (* This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ copy any preferences needed for third-party applications
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.

Will This drive work

just want to upgrade my macbook
will this drive work????
http://www.pagecomputers.com/store/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=Storage+Devices&ca tegory%5Fname=29g29c565s2282&product%5Fid=800246
or is there any cheaper ones?
thank you kindly
daryl

I ordered one, but their shipping is very slow. It said it was in stock when I ordered it, but all the shipping status say five days later now is, "invoiced, ready for shipment."
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Replacing a hard disk: will any drive work?

The 60GB internal hard disk on my 12" PowerBook G4 no longer works reliably. I know this because I can install OS X on my external Maxtor hard drive and boot up with no problem through firewire, but not with the internal one.
I want to replace the internal hard disk. Will any drive that seems to have the right specs-2.5", 9.5mm IDE Hitachi 80GB-do the job? I just bought the described drive at a computer shop, and haven't opened it yet, but I want to make sure I can actually make use of it. Are there any other important considerations?
Thanks in advance.
17" iMac G5 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 12" PowerBook G4 867MHz

Good to see you have managed to get the correct drive.
I have seen posts on these boards where the SATA version has been purchased by mistake as online resellers don't always make enough distinction between the serial and parallel/ultra versions in their sales descriptions.
Even when I was buying my drive I had to triple check that I was buying the correct one.
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Will 7200rpm drive work in 17"PB?

With hard drive specs rising and prices still dropping I'm thinking of squeezing another few months out of my PB17 (1.67) by upgrading the hd with the Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 320gig SATA drive. Will it work in this 4-year old PB, and will it make things happen faster? I'm using mostly CS3 and Office 2008, and have recently experienced real slowdowns in speed, esp launching Office apps.
Thx

Steven:
Western Digital now has a 320 GB PATA drive. You will find a sample of available sources here. Rotational speed is only part of the efficiency of a drive. The other is areal density which means that more data is accessed on a single rotation the greater the areal density. Of course, with two drives of equal capacity the one with the higher rotational speed will be faster, although I have read that it doe snot make a lot of difference.
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I need to add a 2nd hard drive to my Mac Pro. But I am having a tough time finding one that is obviously compatible. On the MacPro tech specs (http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html), the drives are listed as "Serial ATA 3Gb/s".
My local store only has SATA2 drives. For example, on the Western Digital site, the WD Caviar SE 16 750 GB drive looks perfect (http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=311), but when I search that part number (WD7500AAKS) at the local store, it comes up as SATA2.
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• Should I care about using a SATA2 drive in the MacPro. Will SATA2 work?
• Is my local company wrong and this drive is really a normal SATA?
• Does anyone have any first-hand info of a good 750 GB (500 if I have to) hard drives for the MacPro. I've always been happy with my WD Caviars for previous computers.
My current set-up has only the OEM 500GB hd. I don't need RAID, nor am I doing any disk-intensive video work. My MacPro is a part-time graphic design machine / home computer.

SATA II (or 2) is what you want. SATA I drives will also work but they have lower performance specs.
A really good 750 GB SATA II drive for the MacPro is the Western Digital Caviar 750GB SE16 (WD7500AAKS). A review of the drive's performance in the MacPro can be found here (http://www.barefeats.com/hard91.html). I use one for my boot drive and it is very fast, quiet and it runs cool. A good place to buy the drive is Other World Computing (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD7500AAKS/) for around $220. OWC makes buying the right hard drives, memory, optical drives and other peripherals fairly fool-proof as you select your computer model and then see only the components that will work in that computer.

MBP 1.83 CoreDuo - will SATA300 drives work in my SATA-150 laptop?

I've had this book for 4 years and its time to bump up the drive space from the stock Fuji 80GB. System Profiler indicates an SATA interface, which gives me a maximum 1.5Gb transfer rate. I did a search for compatible drives and the list is pretty slim. But I read a few review sites where people had put SATA300 drives in old MacBook Pros like mine and they still worked. What is the truth about this?
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Thanks. Any recommendations for a good replacement drive?
Everyone has their personal favorites: is a Toyota or a Honda a "better" car? A Ford truck or a Chevy "better?"
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Will new hard drive work?

One of my drives is starting to act up and I need to replace it. My Dual G4 manual says I can use 2 Ultra ATA 100 drives and 2 Ultra ATA 66 drives. It's apparent that drives have moved beyond these specs, I'm considering a Maxtor Diamond Max 10 300GB ATA-133 drive thats only $90 at Tigerdirect. Will this drive work, and will it suffer a performance hit being in only an ATA100 slot or ATA66 slot.
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Mac Twin G4 1GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi Kennet
the vast majority if not all ATA-133 drives are backwards compatible with ATA-100 and ATA-66 so it should work fine. There may be a small performance hit but not as much as the figures would suggest. 133MBps is the maximum theoretical transfer rate but most drives don't achieve anywhere near that in burst yet alone substained data transfer.
Depending on how you intend to use the new drive it may be quicker in practice on the ATA-66 bus (assuming you only have two drives) rather than sharing the ATA-100 bus with another drive.
I hope this helps.

SSD Drive schedules for 2007 Mac Mini @ GHz Core 2 Duo

I have put a 240 Gig Crucial SSD in this computer and there was a very prominent bump in usability ie no pageouts .
I have a 480 Gig SanDisk Extreme II and was wondering how sensible it would be to put it into the Mac Mini . SanDisk has a limited viability schedule posted . I thought SanDisk would have a bit better prepared catalog to view these particulars , and I thought wrong .
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   In observing the present compatability of the Mid 2007 Mac Mini Intel carrying a Serial ATA (1.5 Gb/s limit , divining just what inhibitions the speedier quality of those routine functions may be prohibited from employing a 6Gb/s SSD over a standard Disk Drive is less straightforward than an ordinary binary matter might , or might not be .
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T61p does not initialize replacement SSD drive ( Crucial CT128M4SSD2)

Crucial says that their 128GB SSD drive works with T61p's per the link below. See the staff post from 1/6/2012. I get an initialization error (1).
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/T61p-does-not-recognize-CT128M4SSD2/m-p/78022#M23...
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Hello,
Since the T61p ceased manufacturing before Crucial introduced this model of SSD, I think any per-model testing would have been done by them and not Lenovo. I do have a an earlier 64GB Crucial model (CT64M225.SAB2) in a newer ThinkPad (X120e) and it is working fine so far, so this issue may just be limited to that particular model of SSD and T61p. I have an 80GB Intel X25-M in my T61p and that seems to work okay, too.
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WD Drive Work in Powermac G5?

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6560b notebook - no sata-III ssd drives detected - hardware problem - HP employee needed

hello,
I'm one of the authors of this thread about the problem statet in the title.
As the current forum thread might be slightly misplaced under 'Notebooks>Updates', I opened this thread here to get contact to one of the experts from HP.
We need technical support. We have tried every possible solution to fix this problem.
As several owners of the 6560b have experienced, sata-III SSD drives don't work in any of the two internal drive slots of the 6560b.
Most recent firmware updates on ssd / notebook are installed. The SSD drives work fine in other computers. The problem is reproducable. The drives are not correctly recognized on BIOS level at boot.
There is no known 6560b notebook running an internal sata-III drive.
Some of the drives that are reproducably failed to be recognized:
Kingston HyperX 120GB - Sata-III
Corsair Force3 120GB - Sata-III
Corsair Force GT 120GB - Sata-III
Intel 510 - Sata-III
OCZ Vertex 3 - Sata-III
OCZ Agility 3 - Sata-III
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(verified by one user)
This, however, is no usuable workaround.
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-it appears to affect every notebook
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UEFI has been enable. I have to degrade manually, in BIOS settings, SATA3 (6Gbps) to SATA2 (3Gbps) for the drive to be usable. But perfs are not here for that kind of drive, so I'm very upset about that.
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I'm about ready to give up on my GT60. I have purchased two different SSD drives and neither one is recognized in the bios when placed in the first drive slot. They are recognized in the 2nd drive slot, but not the first. I've updated everything, bios and firmware. Will someone tell me what model and brand SSD drive will work int the GT60? When the operating system is install in the second drive slot, i can't use the first drive slot for data because it won't boot windows. So, i have to leave the first drive bay empty. Tech support could not help me.

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I'm about ready to give up on my GT60. I have purchased two different SSD drives and neither one is recognized in the bios when placed in the first drive slot. They are recognized in the 2nd drive slot, but not the first. I've updated everything, bios and firmware. Will someone tell me what model and brand SSD drive will work int the GT60? When the operating system is install in the second drive slot, i can't use the first drive slot for data because it won't boot windows. So, i have to leave the first drive bay empty. Tech support could not help me.
It's rather difficult to recommend a drive....
What drives did you already try?
Are you trying to use the SuperRaid drives?
Do you need a normal 2.5" drive or mSATA drives?
Honestly, any drive should work, it just may not work perfectly. For instance, Samsung 840 Pro drives are known to only operate at SATA II speeds, even when installed in the SATA III slot.
Any Sandforce 2281 based drive should work fine. Intel 520 series should work well, along with 530 as well.

My hard drive crashed on my Imac 24" 2009, i put in a new hard drive 2TB and a SSD drive 240 GB and removed the opticdrive. What external DVD can I get to work with the IMac? The Apple super drive is not compatible.

My hard drive crashed on my Imac 24" 2009, I installed a new hard drive 2TB and a SSD drive 240 GB and removed the optical drive.
What external DVD can I get to work with the IMac? The Apple super drive is not compatible.

Virtually any DVD burner that can connect to your Mac will work. They start at $40 on Amazon.

Will they install an SSD drive for me?

Hello,
I'm thinking of buying a 2.5" SSD drive for my Intel-based iMac - will the Apple Store install it and move my existing HD to the slave bus for me? I've still got AppleCare left.
If so, how much would they charge me for?
Also, is there an eSATA solution for iMacs?
Thanks
Georgios

The simple answer is no they will not because it's not something they sell. Also I don't believe a 2.5" SSD will fit, the bay is designed for 3.5" hd's. Regarding eSATA drives, again your iMac does not have an SATA port on the back so it will not support an eSATA drive, however if you have an iMac with a FW 800 port that would fine, while not as quick as SATA it's a good solution.
If you still want to go down the SSD path then you can look to see if there are any repair centers in your area that will do the work. That being said if your machine is covered by warranty I'm pretty sure installing a SSD drive would void it.
Regards,
Roger

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