Uh....ok 
Just installed a Samsung 830 256gb in the place of the superdrive and it's negotiating now at 6gbs.
Now, as some of you guys know, it never did this. It's link would be 6Gbps, but it's negotiated speed was SATA 2.
This is in a last years early 2011 Macbook Pro 13" 2.3GHZ.
At some point along the way the OS or firmware updates fixed this, I guess. (could they be preparing for a new model )
I wasn't even going to put a 6GBps drive in as it would be a waste, and that is why perhaps it isn't common knowledge at this point (although, of course some people must know )
Just a heads up folks.
here's a sloppy X-bench result (this is the Optibay drive)
esults 476.27
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.7.3 (11D50)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro8,1
Drive Type SAMSUNG SSD PM830 2.5" 7mm 256GB
Disk Test 476.27
Sequential 301.17
Uncached Write 690.79 424.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 472.48 267.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.85 35.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 661.89 332.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1137.80
Uncached Write 1111.13 117.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 837.05 267.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2218.65 15.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1030.75 191.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
So i'm guessing ALL of the recent MacBooks can do this now, as this is the lowest end Macbook Pro. Then again, it might be broken
But the strange thing is, why would they do this? It most likely is not an accident, but a willful bug fix is NOT what it is, as these are not meant to swapped (at all). So either someone did it just for the enthusiast community, or they are preparing for a new Macbook with two drives
The latter would be cool, and just maybe is the case.
who knows.
note: these Samsung things have odd write times. Faster than reads, which is strange
Just installed a Samsung 830 256gb in the place of the superdrive and it's negotiating now at 6gbs.
Now, as some of you guys know, it never did this. It's link would be 6Gbps, but it's negotiated speed was SATA 2.
This is in a last years early 2011 Macbook Pro 13" 2.3GHZ.
At some point along the way the OS or firmware updates fixed this, I guess. (could they be preparing for a new model
)I wasn't even going to put a 6GBps drive in as it would be a waste, and that is why perhaps it isn't common knowledge at this point (although, of course some people must know
)Just a heads up folks.
here's a sloppy X-bench result (this is the Optibay drive)
esults 476.27
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.7.3 (11D50)
Physical RAM 16384 MB
Model MacBookPro8,1
Drive Type SAMSUNG SSD PM830 2.5" 7mm 256GB
Disk Test 476.27
Sequential 301.17
Uncached Write 690.79 424.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 472.48 267.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.85 35.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 661.89 332.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 1137.80
Uncached Write 1111.13 117.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 837.05 267.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2218.65 15.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 1030.75 191.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]
So i'm guessing ALL of the recent MacBooks can do this now, as this is the lowest end Macbook Pro. Then again, it might be broken
But the strange thing is, why would they do this? It most likely is not an accident, but a willful bug fix is NOT what it is, as these are not meant to swapped (at all). So either someone did it just for the enthusiast community, or they are preparing for a new Macbook with two drives
The latter would be cool, and just maybe is the case.
who knows.
note: these Samsung things have odd write times. Faster than reads, which is strange
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