Just installed a 120GB Intel 510 SSD in my 2011 13" MBP and it is working perfectly.
I removed the OEM HD and installed the new SSD then did a
SMC reset and booted from the OEM HD in a USB enclosure. Then ran Disk Util and partitioned the SSD and used Carbon Copy Cloner to move everything to the SSD. I shutdown and disconnected the USB drive and started off the SSD. Went to System Profile and the SSD is linked at SATAIII 6gbps. I set the new SSD as the Startup Disk then started again. Everything seems to work just fine.
Posted below are the XBench scores on the SSD.
Code:
Disk Test 336.16
Sequential 214.06
Uncached Write 199.20 122.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 320.29 181.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 112.53 32.93 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 603.17 303.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 782.48
Uncached Write 601.20 63.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 514.06 164.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2091.92 14.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 975.34 180.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Here is a link to the XBench score if you want to use it to compare to other systems.
I disabled the
sudden motion sensor just because it appealed to the OCD part of me, but I was not having any problems with it enabled.
I set the machine to sleep after one minute and let it go to sleep on its own. Hit the space bar and it woke right up no problems. So apparently no sleep crash bug.
Overall I am quite happy with the IntelSSD install. From the test results, there are probably SATAII drives that cost less and will give close to the same test results (and probably no perceivable difference in actual use), but based on all the good reports from users of Intels previous SSD lines I figured it was worth a little extra money to have a stable system. Also, the fact that Intel provides a boot CD that works for Mac firmware upgrades appealed to me. I had a OWC SSD in my 2008 MBP that worked fine except the sleep bug and it bothered me Sandforce has still not fixed this nor have they or OWC provided a Mac solution for firmware upgrades.