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Hello everyone! I’m contemplating buying my first SSD. I want to put in a small (about 60 GB or so) SSD as my main drive and install my current HDD in an disc drive bay by removing my optical drive. But I can’t decide which SSD to get. I know that my current Macbook from late 2008 is only SATA II (capable of 3 Gbps link speed but the negotiated link-speed is 1.5 Gbps right now) so is there any point in getting the OCZ Vertex 3 (running SATA III, 6Gbps)? Or would the Vertex 2 be fine since I am not able to take advantage of the 6 Gbps interface? Will I see diminished read/write speeds by installing the Vertex 3 or will it get the 500mb read/write speeds? I’ve been reading through multiple forums about people having a problem with the 1.5 Gbps negotiated link speeds. Will my computer suffer from this as well? (My Macbook uses the NVIDIA MCP79 AHCI chipset). So basically, which SSD should I get to get the most out of the computer and the SSD? I am hoping to hear your answers :) Greetings from Denmark! Nicklas
There is no point in paying extra for a SATA 6GB drive when there are a lot cheaper ones out there with 3GB interface. Right now the breakpoint for value-per-coin is around 100-128GB drives. The Corsair Force series (http://www.corsair.com/solid-state-drive…) are often good priced. I bought a 115GB which really should be enough space if you don’t need your complete music library/iphoto on your portable. Twice the size SSD drive and it can cost 3 times as much! So get what you can afford. For you in Denmark this is a fast drive for a very good price: http://www.komplett.dk/k/ki.aspx?sku=625…
All SATA 3 drives are backwards compatible to SATA 2…
SATA-III will probably work with your MacBook. But I would definitely not say that SATA-III is fully compatible with SATA2. Please be aware, that if you use OptiBay, the SATA-III HDD (or SSD) will not work as OptiBay drive (at least with MacBook Pro late 2011). I spent a lot of time (and some money) to figure it out. :) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.p…
