- #Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 install#
- #Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 pro#
- #Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 software#
- #Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 mac#
What you need to know about me: I’m neither an expert in computers nor a complete beginner. At this point I still haven’t received my SSD, so I can only give you a brief summary of what I’ve learned reading about the issue in various forums.
#Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 pro#
In what follows I will provide you with initial information about the problem you might face when upgrading your Macbook Pro (Mid-2009 model) with SSD. Since English is not my native language I apologize for any mistakes I make, but I feel my knowledge of language is adequate for basic communication and you shouldn’t have problems understanding what I’m trying to say.
#Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 mac#
I hope that sharing my findings will help others to decide, whether putting SSD in this particular mac is worth it. The purpose of this blog is to document the experience of running SSD (Crucial M4 128GB) on Macbook Pro 13-inch Mid-2009 model. I hope this is helpful to at least some of you out there! Tagged 5400rpm, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, HDD, Link Speed, Macbook Pro, Mid 2009, Mountain Lion, Negotiated Link Speed, OS X 10.8, SATA2 I will continue to use my Macbook Pro in this configuration till next Tuesday and if I notice any problems or have anything new to add, I will post here.
First of all it is not even a 7200rpm HDD (a lot of users report system instability with such HDDs) and secondly it is not an SSD. It appears that my Macbook Pro can handle a SATA2 HDD. Apparently, if you downgrade EFI to 1.6, both of these show a speed of 1.5Gigabits. It would be safe to assume that this HDD is recognized as SATA2 drive and operates in SATA2 mode. It wasn’t the case with original Hitachi drive – Negotiated Link Speed was 1.5Gigabits. Take a look at this screenshot of system profiler:īoth Link Speed and Negotiated Link Speed is at 3 Gigabits. It might be the case that system instability occurs only when transfer rates are closer to theoretical limits of SATA2 controller. All I can say is that although this SATA2 drive is noticeably faster than my original SATA1 HDD, neither of these drives achieve speeds even close to theoretical limits of SATA1 (1.5Gbits) let alone SATA2 (3Gbits). Now let’s check the results for SATA2 drive:Īs you can see, there is a major improvement in transfer rates which maybe attributed to many things – newer HDD, larger cache etc. Unfortunately I forgot to capture the results of test on my original Hitachi drive, but if you’re willing to take my word for it, transfer rates for reading were around 40MB/sec and for writing it was a little bit less.
If I did something wrong please let me know. Default results were used to test the speed and the first cycle of test was captured in screenshot. If you know a better alternative, please let me know and I’ll do another test and provide you with results. I can’t comment on how accurate are the results produced by this program, but I’ve seen it used often in youtube videos to test the speed of HDD/SDD.
#Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 software#
I did try testing the speed of this HDD using BlackMagic Disk Speed Test software which is available from AppStore for free.
Waking up computer from sleep didn’t result in any freezes. System seems a little more responsive compared to what it was when using original Hitachi drive.Īs some users in forums suggested I tried copying several gigabytes of data to and from WD HDD, while simultaneously watching HD videos and didn’t notice any slowdowns. So far I did not experience beachballing, freezes or any other problems which might be related to the issue I talked about in my original post (knocks on wood!).
#Ssd for macbook pro mid 2009 install#
As promised, I swapped my original SATA1 160GB HDD (Hitachi 5K500.B-160, HTS545016B9SA02, 5400rpm) to a newer and larger SATA2 500GB HDD (Western Digital, WDC WD5000BEVT-00A0RT0, 5400rpm) and did a fresh install of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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