Just upgraded my 5400rpm hard drive to a Corsair Force 3 120gb SDD.
I understand that the SATA III is useless in a macbook this old, but i wanted to get something like this for use in future machines.
anyway, i've installed lion on this machine, and it runs with some occasional problems (beach ball freezing), however my question is directed towards the read and write speeds.
I was fully aware when i bought the sdd that i would never achieve the 500mbs read and write speeds, but i expected something about half that.
using the "disk speed test" on the app store, i got averages of 100mb/s write and consistent 130mb/s read speeds. Is this normal? what kind of speeds do you get with the factory hard drive?
Machine:
MacBook 2007, Osx Lion, Core 2 duo 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, 120gb factory hdd replaced by 120gb sdd
I understand that the SATA III is useless in a macbook this old, but i wanted to get something like this for use in future machines.
anyway, i've installed lion on this machine, and it runs with some occasional problems (beach ball freezing), however my question is directed towards the read and write speeds.
I was fully aware when i bought the sdd that i would never achieve the 500mbs read and write speeds, but i expected something about half that.
using the "disk speed test" on the app store, i got averages of 100mb/s write and consistent 130mb/s read speeds. Is this normal? what kind of speeds do you get with the factory hard drive?
Machine:
MacBook 2007, Osx Lion, Core 2 duo 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, 120gb factory hdd replaced by 120gb sdd