Late 2008 MacBook and Samsung 840

mcnamaragio · Dec 25, 2012, 02:33 PM

Hello,

I am considering purchasing Samsung 840 sata III 120GB drive for my macbook 13" late 2008 unibody.

I know that there are many ssd drives (intel, ocz) which experience slow speed issues with this macbook (Negotiated Speed Link resulting in 1.5 instead of 3Gb). Do you know if this drive works at full speed 3GB supported by the MacBook? If not which one do you recommend?

Thanks.

spyguy10709 · Dec 26, 2012, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mcnamaragio

Hello,

I am considering purchasing Samsung 840 sata III 120GB drive for my macbook 13" late 2008 unibody.

I know that there are many ssd drives (intel, ocz) which experience slow speed issues with this macbook (Negotiated Speed Link resulting in 1.5 instead of 3Gb). Do you know if this drive works at full speed 3GB supported by the MacBook? If not which one do you recommend?

Thanks.

To be honest - you're not going to see the major difference between the 1.5 and 3 speeds, your macbook's bottleneck will be the DDR2 RAM and slower system bus. The speed of a SSD comes from the 0 seek times and superfast cache.

mcnamaragio · Dec 27, 2012, 12:39 AM

It has DDR3 ram which I am upgrading to 8GB.

robvas · Dec 27, 2012, 11:53 AM

Others have reported that it did not negotiate the 3.0 link speed on the MPC79 Nvidia chipset

mcnamaragio · Dec 27, 2012, 12:02 PM

Do you have links to these reports?

Dec 25, 2012, 02:33 PM	#1
mcnamaragio macrumors newbie Join Date: Dec 2012	Late 2008 MacBook and Samsung 840 Hello, I am considering purchasing Samsung 840 sata III 120GB drive for my macbook 13" late 2008 unibody. I know that there are many ssd drives (intel, ocz) which experience slow speed issues with this macbook (Negotiated Speed Link resulting in 1.5 instead of 3Gb). Do you know if this drive works at full speed 3GB supported by the MacBook? If not which one do you recommend? Thanks.
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Dec 27, 2012, 12:39 AM	#3
mcnamaragio Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Dec 2012	It has DDR3 ram which I am upgrading to 8GB.
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robvas macrumors 65816 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: USA	Others have reported that it did not negotiate the 3.0 link speed on the MPC79 Nvidia chipset
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Dec 27, 2012, 12:02 PM	#5
mcnamaragio Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Dec 2012	Do you have links to these reports?
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