Changing the hard drive in a pro 2009

[badigel]

Hello,

The hard drive in my macbook pro 09 has broken down and I want to change it.

I was thinking about replacing it with an ssd. Will any ssd do the job or do I need to look for a specific feature?

 

[yjchua95]

Hello,

The hard drive in my macbook pro 09 has broken down and I want to change it.

I was thinking about replacing it with an ssd. Will any ssd do the job or do I need to look for a specific feature?

Any 2.5" SATA2/3 SSD will do the job. However there's no point going for the fastest SSD, as your MBP only has a SATA2 (3Gb/s) connection, so you're capped to around 300MB/s.

Go for something like the Crucial M4 or the M500.

 

[badigel]

Any 2.5" SATA2/3 SSD will do the job. However there's no point going for the fastest SSD, as your MBP only has a SATA2 (3Gb/s) connection, so you're capped to around 300MB/s.

Go for something like the Crucial M4 or the M500.

Thanks.

 

[alphaod]

Just because you can't reach the sequential performance is SATA 3 (6Gbps), doesn't mean you have to go for a slower driver. Never drives also have faster random performance which even the fastest drives fail to saturate a fraction of their sequential speed.

You'll notice random performance more than sequential performance. Random use is day-to-day use when opening up programs, opening files, etc.

 

[ecschwarz]

Just because you can't reach the sequential performance is SATA 3 (6Gbps), doesn't mean you have to go for a slower driver. Never drives also have faster random performance which even the fastest drives fail to saturate a fraction of their sequential speed.

You'll notice random performance more than sequential performance. Random use is day-to-day use when opening up programs, opening files, etc.

I agree with this - plus, many SATA 2 drives are just as expensive, if not more, than the SATA 3 drives due to the industry moving towards SATA 3 (sort of like how some older types of RAM are more expensive than newer types). Just about anything should work - the models by Crucial are popular as are the Samsung 840 Evos (keep an eye out for deals on Amazon, 9to5Toys, or DealNews)