Older MBPs with the same 1.5GBps SATA issue?

[Draeconis]

Seeing as all the attention was on the Mid-2009 Unibody MacBook Pros seemingly having a slow SATA connection, I was curious to check that the SATA connection on my Early 2008 model, and sure enough, I also have a connection running at 1.5GBps?

This is a little irritating, as I've been considering upgrading the laptop with a Solid State Disk at some point in the near future, and now that will be hampered by the issue I thought was exclusively with newer MBPs.

So I wonder if Apple will issue a firmware update that corrects our older laptops to the same 3GBps we're supposed to have?

The SATA controller on the Early 2008 MacBook Pro is the Intel ICH8-M AHCI, if that helps anyone?

 

[Fizzoid]

It's only the unibodys that have the chipset to support 3Gbs isn't it?

 

[jdaco6]

Seeing as all the attention was on the Mid-2009 Unibody MacBook Pros seemingly having a slow SATA connection, I was curious to check that the SATA connection on my Early 2008 model, and sure enough, I also have a connection running at 1.5GBps?

This is a little irritating, as I've been considering upgrading the laptop with a Solid State Disk at some point in the near future, and now that will be hampered by the issue I thought was exclusively with newer MBPs.

So I wonder if Apple will issue a firmware update that corrects our older laptops to the same 3GBps we're supposed to have?

The SATA controller on the Early 2008 MacBook Pro is the Intel ICH8-M AHCI, if that helps anyone?

The chip is meant to run at 1.5gbps only unibodys had the 3gbps option.

 

[iLog.Genius]

Your early-2008 MacBook Pro does not support it so there is no need to worry about the update.

 

[Eidorian]

ICH8-M does support 3.0 Gbps SATA but it's doubtful you'll ever see an update.

 

[Draeconis]

Ah fair enough, thanks for the replies

Will in practice the controller running at 1.5GBps really have that much of an impact on SSD performance?