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13" Mbp Only 1.5gb Sata ? - SOLVED!!!!!!!!!
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The people that find this SATA-I discovery very worrisome, are the people looking to add an SSD drive. Most people know that their platter drive isn't going to cap out SATA-I.
Just been on the phone to the apple store regarding the SATA interfaces on the macbook pro 13" they confirmed it should be 3.0 and note 1.5. They have checked there models in store on display and out of 5 systems two reported 1.5 and the rest 3.0. They couldn't explain what the difference was but they did say 1.5 was the cheaper option which would make sense. Need to get onto to Apple support regarding this as my macbook is in the air on route.
I went for the 13-inch: 2.53GHz
I went for the 13-inch: 2.53GHz
In your case it won't make any difference. Any traditional hard drive is incapable of exceeding SATA1 limitations.
The fastest SSDs like Intel and OCZ Vertex are slightly limited by it though.
My early 2009 white Macbook, nvidia 9400m reads 3gb wth my 7200rpm 320gb drive that I installed. Hitachi Hts723232l9a360
It also runs the 800 mh memory that I installed.
It also runs the 800 mh memory that I installed.
Some benchmark by a user here also showed that his Vertex 250 GB is showing a 110MB/s sequential read maximum. This is strange as that's more than half the speed loss from the advertised o OCZ.
I figured the only way this is possible is if the SATA controller is capped at 1.5 Gb/s, rather than the 3 Gb/s it is supposed to have.
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I figured the only way this is possible is if the SATA controller is capped at 1.5 Gb/s, rather than the 3 Gb/s it is supposed to have.
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Great
I was planning to upgrade my new baby with a SSD drive a little later. I hope this isn't true. You know what they say about something sounding too good to be true and I thought the 13 MBP sounded perfect for me.
I was planning to upgrade my new baby with a SSD drive a little later. I hope this isn't true. You know what they say about something sounding too good to be true and I thought the 13 MBP sounded perfect for me.
i just got off the phone with apple,
the 2.26 carries the 1.5gbit connector and he couldent tell me a anything about the 2.53, except that some have 1.5 and some 3.0
so retarrded. i wonder what we can do about this since nowhere on apple's website did they show this major difference.
Well apparently I have one of the 2.53 that has a 1.5
Guess I'm going to be making a trip back to the Apple store. Although, if they have no way to know which has what, they'll probably not be helpful.
i will recall apple a few times, to make this info is accurate...sometimes i get different answers every-time...but it looks to be this way :*(
For a 7200 rpm drive, SATA 1.5 vs. SATA 3.0 doesn't really matter. You'll never hit the maximum transfer speed. For a 1.5 Gb connections, that's ~120ish MB/s. No 7200 rpm hard drive transfers faster than 100 MB/s...
If true, is is only an issue with SSDs.
1.5 Gigabit is confirmed by apple engineering
I just got off the phone with Apple engineering and they are confirming that the speed on the 13 inch mbp is 1.5 Gigabit, not 3.0 as previous gen was.
They said that cost was probably the deciding factor for this which makes absolutely no sense since it is the same chip.
So there you go. Like it or not.
I just got off the phone with Apple engineering and they are confirming that the speed on the 13 inch mbp is 1.5 Gigabit, not 3.0 as previous gen was.
They said that cost was probably the deciding factor for this which makes absolutely no sense since it is the same chip.
So there you go. Like it or not.
using up stock from somthing possible?
hard to say with apple....maybe they scrapped the 3g at the end