MacBook upgrade - Which SSD?

Conrad11

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Relatively recently I switched from PC to Mac and can already notice the difference in speed for my everyday tasks. I have upgraded it to 4GB as I usually have VM software open with 1GB allocated for Windows to run on.

Spotlight is *sometimes* laggy and it would be nicer if some things would load quicker so I was thinking of investing in a 128GB SSD. I don't want the very top end one as I think that would be a waste of money seen as they would probably be half the price in 6 months.

Would I notice much of a difference if I got a SSD in terms of ironing out the Spotlight lag and boot/application load times on a Mac? Also, which drive should I go for? (Wasn't looking at spending over £150 - £175.

Here is an XBench benchmark:

Results 43.88
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.7 (9J61)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBook5,2
Drive Type FUJITSU MHZ2120BH FFS G1
Disk Test 43.88
Sequential 64.82
Uncached Write 82.87 50.88 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 79.59 45.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 37.86 11.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.77 47.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 33.16
Uncached Write 12.16 1.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 80.48 25.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 61.36 0.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 103.26 19.16 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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Thanks for any opinions...
 
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leexgx said:
Corsair S128 £171
or for £70 more the OCZ Agility £255 the data rate of the SSD is bit faster on the agility thats all (your mac mite only work at Sata 1 any way)

but Do check before buying that your Mac laptop does not have problems with SSDs as macs have been hit and miss with SSDs
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I have been told to above the Jmicron (something like that) controller. Does the drive you suggested (the cheaper one) have one of these?

With regards to having a Mac, I have the Early 2009 (MB881B/A) version of the MacBook...how would I find out whether my Mac is SATA-II and compatible with SDD?

Thanks for the reply.
 
i never post JMicron drives or recommend to buy them (you can buy the Corsair S128 is cheaper then any of the JMicron based SSDs)

samsung and corsair and > OCZ Agility, falcon, vertex, (in order of price) have cache on them and do not suffer from the stuttering issues
 
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