Crucial M500/480 or Seagate 600/480 for older MacBook?

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Santa goofed, and one of each is coming just before Christmas! Have I so send one back... but which one? Price was virtually the same, and it's to go into an early 2009 white MacBook/w nVidia graphics. What's the collective wisdom of the group on this vital subject?

I do understand that the slower SATA bus on this old MacBook isn't going to maximize the i/o on either SSD.
 
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Is either of these more capable of reliably negotiating a SATA 2 connection? I've heard that this MacBook (white 13" 5,2) sometimes has issues with getting stuck at SATA 1.5 instead of 2 when negotiating with a SATA 3 SSD. Currently with a 7200 HDD it's reporting a 3 Gigabit link speed, 3 Gigabit negotiated, AHCI Version 1.20 supported. I don't want to be stuck at SATA1 with the upgrade!
 
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I went with the Seagate 600 and have been quite pleased with the increased startup speed and overall snappier feel. Applications open several times faster, making this old laptop seem like a new beast. It does run hotter, and the battery drains a bit faster, but the trade-off IS a good one! I'm using smcFanControl to help cool things off so I hear the fan more than I used to, so it's not quite a Macbook Air, but the price was right.

10/2/14:
While initially the drive was working at a negotiated link speed of 3 Gigabit, I noted today that it has reverted to 1.5 at some point. Anyone have a recommendation for how to get it back to 3? I suspect that the change happened after an OS update (currently at 10.9.5). The drive has never provided SMART status info in this MacBook either, an ongoing irritation. 'About this Mac' just reports 'S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported'...
 
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