- #Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 install
- #Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 upgrade
- #Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 mac
It wouldn't hurt to perform some system maintenance: I'm not convinced why you think an SSD will give the computer another three years or more of use. Or consider installing a Seagate XT Hybrid HDD. Having a too small SSD may not be as useful as a large, fast HDD.įor the most compatible and fastest SSDs check out those at OWC. For decent performance with Lion you need 4 GBs of installed RAM - more if you tend to run a lot of concurrent applications that require a lot of RAM. The first card the Solox1 would give you about 33% more speed than the maximum SATA II can give you but might be slightly slower than the SSD itself could achieve, the Solox2 would easily cope with the speed of any SSD SATA drive.If it's a late 2008 model that's running Lion, then you very well need more RAM, not an SSD.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 mac
These specifically state they will work as Mac boot drives. This might cost more but would be the way I would go. In view of the above I would personally use a different brand that does not need a power lead. However it seems that contrary to some information I had seen this card needs an additional power cable, this could be taken from the normally spare optical drive bay or if one of the PCIe aux-power leads is unused that could be used.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 install
(It does come with a Windows driver so as long as you install the driver in to Windows before connecting the drive to this card Boot Camp would work.) I did find this thread / which suggests someone else has successfully used it in a Mac Pro. This has been my experience with other makes of PCIe SATA card in a Mac Pro although I have not personally tried this Sedna one. Typically these PCIe cards use a generic driver provider by Apple in their firmware and operating system and you do not need to install a Mac driver. I have also had success with an ATTO Tech ExpressSAS card.
I can confirm that OS X boots with no problems on the above StarTech card, and if you first install the Windows driver then Windows via Boot Camp also works. You would need to install the Windows driver for whichever SATA III card you use before moving the Boot Camp drive to the new SATA III connection. Note: if you do use either means of upgrading to SATA III then there is an issue with Windows via Boot Camp. All you need is a suitable PCIe SATA controller card like this s-SATA-III-RAID-Controller-Card-Mini-SAS… and a mini-SAS extension cable like this 8174.1388397850 As it happens your 2008 model is easy to do this for than later 2009, 20 models.
The method of upgrading all four of your existing drive bays would require as mentioned a SATA PCIe controller card. One word of caution, a few might not support booting from them. This is still not as fast as a PCIe type SSD drive which does not use SATA at all but lets you use the SSD you have already purchased.Ī PCIe adapter to fit your SSD to would be something like this - there are lots of makes, some come with SSD drives some without. I believe a SATA III SSD would then give you between 400MBps and 450MBps speed which is a reasonable amount above the SATA II limit. Both these approaches will then give you SATA III at 600MBps.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro early 2008 upgrade
You can either get a SATA III PCIe controller card to upgrade the internal drive bays, or you can get a PCIe adapter card on to which you fit the SSD directly. The standard drive bays in all the classic Mac Pro models including your 2008 model is only SATA II which is 300MBps, this is slower than an SSD SATA drive can operate at and will therefore limit the performance but will still be faster than a hard drive. You might want to also consider a different and yes more expensive approach. I personally do successfully use the NewerTech 3.5" to 2.5" adapter mentioned by kaz-k. OWC do make a drive sled for a Mac Pro specifically for 2.5" drives but this is only for the 2009, 2010, and 2012 models so will not fit your 2008 model. Some people have simply plugged the 2.5" drive in and used tape to hold it in place, this works but is not the prettiest or most robust solution.
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