MBP with SSD

[Dr Delphi]

Ok, so I have just bought the optibay clone from the bay, and it seems exactly what I ordered. I am looking at getting an SSD to put in the drive bay, and put snow leopard onto it with the apps remaining on the SSD and the data on the 500GB drive.

First of all, I am looking at the new intel SSD drives:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-012-IN

Has anyone used this in a MBP (mid-2009) and are there any issues I need to be aware about with it?

Also does anyone know the best way to transfer the OS logistically? Cloning would ideally be the best bet as I would like to keep the apps as they are, I have some rather painful to install visualisation software, which I have never managed to reinstall using make, and MS Office was installed using my parents serial and they live in another country!

Thanks for any help guys.

 

[fez]

I would get a second opinion on this but I got the impression that older MBP's sata connector won't allow the maximum speed from the lastest SSDs so getting an older but large one wouldn't be such a bad idea.

I think I picked up a ocz vertex 2e 120gb for just over £140 which absolutely flies. I think that I might have found 80gb a little too restrictive.

 

[shine]

The Intel 320 is a SATA II drive so you'll get maximum performance in the Optibay.

I used Carbon Copy Cloner so I could clone my Intel SSD onto the M4 when I upgraded.

 

[Dr Delphi]

The new intels are SATA 2 (well the 320 series anyway), I was more worried about the controller and any issues with it (although additional investigation i've found its the same as the old controller for the intel drives, and thus people have had no issues with it on OSX). I ordered it anyhow, so we'll see tomorrow what its like!

Also any recommendations for migrating just the system files from the old HDD to the SSD without reinstalling?

 

[shine]

Carbon Copy Cloner let's you clone the whole drive or parts of it. So if you only want to clone the OS and leave the rest behind you can.