am i really going to notice slower drive speeds?

S.A.S · 18 Jun 2009 at 18:09

been looking around the net at the new MBP SATA interface using 1.5GB's instead of 3.0. am i really going to notice the different in drive load speeds? ect.

i've heard that a 5400rpm drive cant fully use 1.5GB's anyway if this is true.

i'm getting worried now as i have ordered mien then seen these posts

Craig321 · 18 Jun 2009 at 18:13

SATA 1 is 1.5Gbps which is 178MB/s, so providing your hard drive speeds don't exceed 178MB/s there's no need for SATA2.

You would however notice a difference on SATA2 if you were transferring between multiple drives at the same time as you could then have e.g. 7 hard drives transferring at 50MB/s at the same time.

If you're using a single drive there's no need for SATA2 (unless you're using a nice expensive SSD of course).

Correct me if I'm wrong.

S.A.S · 18 Jun 2009 at 18:16

really do not know lol, is my mac likely to exceed this

james.miller · 18 Jun 2009 at 18:17

S.A.S said:
really do not know lol, is my mac likely to exceed this

it'll get nowhere near that lol.

Craig321 · 18 Jun 2009 at 18:19

Re-worded my above post, previous post was a bit craply written

S.A.S · 18 Jun 2009 at 20:00

i no im changing the thread now, but can any ssd be put into the macbook pro, like any ssd's off ocuk ?

TheVoice · 19 Jun 2009 at 00:49

SSDs can meet and exceed the 1.5GBps limit, but hard-drives of any normal speed won't.

S.A.S · 19 Jun 2009 at 13:17

will a simple firmware update from apple fix this or isit a big issue?

james.miller · 19 Jun 2009 at 14:10

there's nothing to fix. its a lmit of the drive, not the laptop