- Jan 20, 2013
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I asked a version of this earlier but it's kind of gotten lost in the mix. It's a secondary question so I guess a new threat makes sense:
I'm maxing out my early '08 MacBook. Replacing the optical drive, doubling the RAM, upgrading the OS, and cleaning it both physically and digitally. I was going to upgrade the CPU, but it's soldered to the board, and a new one would be ~$200 for only a couple extra MHz.
Anyway, being an '08 laptop, its hard drive connection is SATA2. I feel like an SSD would still be worth it. I just want to make sure my reasoning is sound:
I have a 5400rpm HDD connected to a SATA2 connection on the motherboard using a SATA1 (1.5Gb/s) interface. Even assuming that the HDD could saturate its 1.5Gb/s allowance (which I'm sure it can't), an SSD like the Samsung 840, which has a maximum write speed of 530MB/s (4.14Gb/s), would theoretically double my maximum throughput when it caps out at 3.0Gb/s (thus still under-utilizing its potential).
Right?
I'm maxing out my early '08 MacBook. Replacing the optical drive, doubling the RAM, upgrading the OS, and cleaning it both physically and digitally. I was going to upgrade the CPU, but it's soldered to the board, and a new one would be ~$200 for only a couple extra MHz.
Anyway, being an '08 laptop, its hard drive connection is SATA2. I feel like an SSD would still be worth it. I just want to make sure my reasoning is sound:
I have a 5400rpm HDD connected to a SATA2 connection on the motherboard using a SATA1 (1.5Gb/s) interface. Even assuming that the HDD could saturate its 1.5Gb/s allowance (which I'm sure it can't), an SSD like the Samsung 840, which has a maximum write speed of 530MB/s (4.14Gb/s), would theoretically double my maximum throughput when it caps out at 3.0Gb/s (thus still under-utilizing its potential).
Right?
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