SSD question....

[Brian8bit]

After upgrading the RAM in my iMac and MBP a week or so ago, I'm planning on an SSD upgrade for both. The iMac is late 2009, the MBP is mid 2010. Both of these will be SATA 3Gb/s machines. Is there any point in putting a SATA 6Gb/s drive in either machine?

What I'm wondering is if we're at a point were SATA 3 drives can saturate the SATA 2 bus? If so, there's not really much point putting a drive in that is going to be bottle necked by the SATA 2 bus...

Also, can anyone recommend a couple of drives. All my important documents, files and work is stored on external HDD backups, so the only thing that really needs to go on the SSD is OS and applications.

 

[Brian8bit]

Cheers for the reply. Good point about future upgrading. Space isn't a biggy, as said, most of my important bits are stored externally. So it's only really OS and applications I need on the internal drive.

I was looking at the Crucial RealSSD 64GB and the OCZ Agility 3 60GB as they're a good price and I could grab a pair for under £200. The write speed on the Crucial drive (around 110MB/sec) seems very low though compared to the OCZ drive (Maximum Write: 475MB/sec). Would the OCZ drive be the better option?

Crucial Drive.

OCZ Drive.