MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008): new hard drive question

Hello, I have a MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) that needs a new hard drive.

Please point me in the right direction (forum, blog post, etc.) to solve the following questions:
Is it possible for me to put an SSD in this machine?
Will any SSD work?
If not SSD, are there specific Hard Drives that this Mac needs?

Thank you!

A SSD will work in that machine. For a selection of SSDs and other hard drives, go to the Other World Computing site and look over what they have. Here is the LINK.

chscag said:

A SSD will work in that machine. For a selection of SSDs and other hard drives, go to the Other World Computing site and look over what they have. Here is the LINK.

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Does it matter if it is SATA 1 2 or 3?

It doesn't matter as the drive speed will fall back to whatever your 2008 MacBook can sustain.

dadoprso said:

Does it matter if it is SATA 1 2 or 3?

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Yes SATA 2 is faster than SATA 1 (3Gb/s vs 1.5Gb/s). Your machine is using SATA 2. I believe you can install SATA 3 on your machine since SATA 3 is backward compatible with SATA 2, but you won't get the speed benefits of SATA 3 since the bus going to the hard drive is SATA 2.

chscag said:

It doesn't matter as the drive speed will fall back to whatever your 2008 MacBook can sustain.

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Dwinguel said:

Yes SATA 2 is faster than SATA 1 (3Gb/s vs 1.5Gb/s). Your machine is using SATA 2. I believe you can install SATA 3 on your machine since SATA 3 is backward compatible with SATA 2, but you won't get the speed benefits of SATA 3 since the bus going to the hard drive is SATA 2.

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Awesome! thanks you guys!