what kind of ssd speeds on 2010 macbook pro

[Acorn]

I have read that the 2010 13 inch macbook pro cant take full advantage of a samsung 840 pro ssd.

So what kind of speeds could I expect with that setup. I cant decide if I should just sell it and get a 13 inch retina in a few months or keep it for awhile longer. The core 2 duo seems to be really aging compared to what I can get now. however a ssd upgrade seems to be the cheapest way to go about it.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

S-ATA 3.0 Gbps (S-ATA II), which should more than suffice for the random read/write access the SSD needs to make a computer feel and work faster.

The 2011 and newer Macs are the ones implementing S-ATA 6.0 Gbps (S-ATA III).

Also check www.everymac.com for other specs of specific Macs you are interested in.

 

[dusk007]

About 260/250 read/write.
For speed anything above that doesn't really do too much for you.
What makes SSDs fast is the Random read/write speed and everything past 50 MB/s in that departement will be too much for any mobile CPU anyway. Really fast access of microseconds rather than milliseconds are the great thing but also not affected by SATA 2 or 3.

High read/write of 400-500MB/s only helps for very few use cases where you need to read a big chunk of sequential data (like extract an uncompressed archive) and even there the difference is rather small compared to the different between any slow SSD and an HDD.

 

[jmdMac]

260/255 read/write

This is with a Samsung 840 250GB in a mid-2010 15" MBP (as is my signature).