I ordered this SSD from Amazon

[gadgetfreaky]

Do I need to order anything else to slip this into my macbook pro? Special mounting brackets or anything? I plan to just swap out my 500 HD. Then plop in this. Then install OSX via superdrive. It should be super fast and hopefully this drive will work well. I'm gonna do a boot camp partition with windows 7 too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026V5MY0/ref=oss_product

It's the Corsair 256 GB Performance Series Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-256GBG2D.

 

[snouter]

Should drop right in.

When installing, get into disk utilities to format/partition the hard drive and that's it. You may not even need to do that.

If the Mac does not see the hard drive, it might help to have a PC around to format the SSD as FAT, then MacOS should be able to see it and format it.

 

[gadgetfreaky]

I'm so exited. I should get it tomorrow AM. Anyone else see any problems?

 

[snouter]

I'm so exited. I should get it tomorrow AM. Anyone else see any problems?

You'll have to suffer through 10 second long boots and Photoshop opening in like 3 seconds. If you can live with that...

 

[gadgetfreaky]

Anyone have any gripes on this sucker before I install it? Arrives tomorrow.

 

[GoCubsGo]

No gripes. What more do you need to reassure you of your purchase son? I mean, if you do a search you'll see the results are positive.

 

[gadgetfreaky]

No gripes. What more do you need to reassure you of your purchase son? I mean, if you do a search you'll see the results are positive.

it's just kinda weird...i'm spending 1/3rd the price of my Macbook Pro on it. lots of folks are like no you should do intel but the read/writes look better on this plus I get more space.

I wanna make sure

 

[Sneakz]

Samsung controller. Its essentially the same drive Apple ships default with the MBPs.

Apple's SSD is a Toshiba branded drive with a Samsung controller
Corsair P-Series have a Samsung controller

 

[waloshin]

Should work no problem, post a quick review of it later, performance wise. Please