Thanks for the pointer

If your OS is windows 7, there are only a few tweaks needed, personally im using this http://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=SSD-Tweaker
a few more things are, disable hibernation(can be very large if your system ram capacity is high), and reduce the pagefile size, not disable pagefile.

Hi, I am new to SSD.

I have a MBP 15 mid 2009 model - MacBook Pro 5,3. Now running OS X 10.8.2 with a std 500Gb HDD.
I am planning to get a 256Gb SSD into the main HD drive and move the std HDD to the optical bay.
But, this is what confuse me. When I went into system profile to check on my SATA, surpassingly it said the Negotiated Link is 1.5Gb/s only (supported to 3.0Gb/s).
So does this mean that my SSD also will be capped at 1.5Gb/s (SATA1)??
I need confirmation from other who had done SSD swapped in MBP mid 2009 and anybody...

thanks.

This always happens when user oversea wanted to dump in SSD into their system.
Sometime it.s on and off runing 3GB and got quite alot ppl fedup

Crucial M4 010G Firmware has bug.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/whats_wro...been_fixed.html

This is not good. Sounds like a 8mb bug

is this a good option for me:

SSD Sata2

This post has been edited by ic-klass: Oct 11 2012, 12:55 AM

Do u really need this kind of size ? If yes , u should consider other brand too such as M4 or pricier option Vertex 4 .

Just got my Intel 520 yesterday, ran some benchmark, the read speed seems normal, but the write speed seems to be capped at 485mb/s any ideas?

Hiw much is M4 and Vertex4 in KL?

ok done install this software..
so which one to tick bro? any recommendation?

i'm MacBook Aluminium late 2008 user, yes, it is normal if your Macbook/MBP is using MCP79 chipset. normally it will drop to SATA1 speed. i'm using Corsair Force 3 120G for about three weeks. However, if install Virual Box and with Windows OS benchmark using ATTO, you will notice the SSDis actually running READ speed SATA2, WRITE speed SATA1.

it could be different if you use other SSD brand. but i'm ok with the speed since it's almost 4 years old macbook, feel it still can last for maybe one or two years.

You should hovering around the option on the SSD tweaker to see what the options does
The best setting is left everything unticked and disabled
And since hibernation is only useful when you have small ram + hdd, and since SSD greatly accelerated the booting speed, thus its not needed now, read this to figure out how to disable it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

U can ask CyntrixTech for Crucial M4

I tried the ssd chexker at crucial - it suggested the V4 instead of M4. Any comments on V4?

Sequential Read / Write (up to)
550 MB/s / 500 MB/s
Source: Intel SSD 520 Series

Your write speed is very fast already.. almost reach it's limit (500mb/s).. U need more speed? Do you always write data with file size bigger than 485mb? Other people write speed only between 200-350mb/s and consider fast already..

looks normal. maybe your ssd is getting full, so its slightly slower? My corsair is good though, 30 gb free. and still getting read 550 mb/s and write 515mb/s.

i notice some ssd benchmark app notes down the number of times powered on
is that info important either in terms of usage/buying used?

Hmm. I'm just wondering, cause I see other Intel 520 can hit 510+ write speed, agree is fast bust just wondering mjne like capped..

hmm.. Just got the drive and installed one game, only use like 40gb out of 110, maybe my cable / port problem

Going to build new rig...looking for 120gb ssd, any recommendation? ( only use for OS only, boot up system)