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Crucial v4 with 2009 MBP

BizRunner

BizRunner

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So I have been looking around for a SSD, and I am interested by Crucial's offerings. I had been looking at the m4, but now that the v4 has been released I feel as if it is the better fit for my older machine.

Any thoughts?
 
BizRunner said:
Yes it has the NVidia MCP79 AHCI and NVidia MCP79 AHCI with link speeds of 3GB. That is what you mean, correct?
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SATA III is 6GB. The new Crucial SSD is for SATA II connections, which is 3GB. Since you have 3GB (SATA II), this new SSD is perfect for your computer. I was just wondering what connections you had because if you had SATA III connections then I was going to recommend the G4 model. The G4 has backwards compatibility but you will still get the same read/write speeds as a SATA II connection.
 
Irock619 said:
SATA III is 6GB. The new Crucial SSD is for SATA II connections, which is 3GB. Since you have 3GB (SATA II), this new SSD is perfect for your computer. I was just wondering what connections you had because if you had SATA III connections then I was going to recommend the G4 model. The G4 has backwards compatibility but you will still get the same read/write speeds as a SATA II connection.
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Which means he can do a lot better than a Crucial V4 if he does his homework.

The V4's controller is a Phison PS3105. Here's a review of another SSD that used a similar controller... better yet, let's just cut to the chase right now: don't buy this.
 
jcpb said:
Which means he can do a lot better than a Crucial V4 if he does his homework.

The V4's controller is a Phison PS3105. Here's a review of another SSD that used a similar controller... better yet, let's just cut to the chase right now: don't buy this.
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Good advice!. For MBP 2008-2010 models with Nvidia MCP chips, only Crucial M4 models and OCZ Vertex 3 works reliably. People need to understand that they need to UPDATE the firmware to the right version BEFORE installing. This usually means sticking it into a Desktop PC and get the firmware updated before installing in the Mac!.

My Vertex 3 rocks on Late-08 MBP, boots 16s, wakes in 4 s, sleeps instantly. Reads 262MBytes/s, writes 162 MB/s uncompressible data.
 
fteoath64 said:
Good advice!. For MBP 2008-2010 models with Nvidia MCP chips, only Crucial M4 models and OCZ Vertex 3 works reliably. People need to understand that they need to UPDATE the firmware to the right version BEFORE installing. This usually means sticking it into a Desktop PC and get the firmware updated before installing in the Mac!.

My Vertex 3 rocks on Late-08 MBP, boots 16s, wakes in 4 s, sleeps instantly. Reads 262MBytes/s, writes 162 MB/s uncompressible data.
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I have a Plextor M3 installed in my 17" MBP early 2009 and it works flawless so OP don't limit your choice to just an M4 or Vertex 3.
 
clyde2801 said:
So, clean install with recovery partition on 2011 MBP....and then use carbon copy cloner to move apps and other junk?
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If you don't want to hassle with a clean install, CCC will actually move the Recovery HD and OS along with all your data onto the new drive if you have done a full clone.
 
clyde2801 said:
Yeah, doing that now. I've just heard so many people post that this method is more likely to cause problems or performance degradation.
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If your Mac is working fine now it should continue to work the same on a new drive that is cloned.
 
clyde2801 said:
I'm in the middle (technically, 2/3 of the way) of the cloning. Anything other advice? Figure I'll boot off it while it's still in the external drive to check it out before I put it in the machine...
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Only thing you need to do after the swap is go into System Pref and Startup Disk then select the new drive as the startup volume then restart.
 
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