Realiable and cheap SSD for macbook

[esadb]

Been meaning to get a SSD and some ram for my macbook (c2d, 2.26ghz, 2gb ram)

The ram I am not to worried about that's easy to figure out.

Now the SSD I have been looking at prices and they seem to vary quite a bit, I think a 128gb should be enough and I can use the current drive that's in the mac 250gb and put in an external enclosure.

Any recommendations on what drive? I am trying to stay on the cheaper side, plan is to sell the kinect sensor I got and add some funds and get a drive.

Hit me with some recommendations.

 

[RLesko]

The top two brands would probably be OWC or crucial drives. They are SSD's, its not possible (to my knowledge) to find them for "cheap". Be preprepared to spend about $200 on a 128 gb ssd.

 

[r0k]

Another option is the Seagate Momentus XT which is a hybrid 500 GB 7200 RPM / 4GB SSD drive. It uses the SSD as "cache" so read response is SSD-like but the cost is closer to a normal hard drive than an SSD drive while performance is closer to an SSD drive than a normal drive.

I have one in my 2.4 Ghz Macbook, along with 4 GB of RAM and it's like having a new machine.

 

[esadb]

Another option is the Seagate Momentus XT which is a hybrid 500 GB 7200 RPM / 4GB SSD drive. It uses the SSD as "cache" so read response is SSD-like but the cost is closer to a normal hard drive than an SSD drive while performance is closer to an SSD drive than a normal drive.

I have one in my 2.4 Ghz Macbook, along with 4 GB of RAM and it's like having a new machine.

Hmm I didn't even know about those. Seems like a pretty solid drive, some great reviews online about it.

That might be a better price point then, their currently $99 at various online places.
Mind if I ask how much you paid for yours? Perhaps they will be dropping in price soon?