Upgrading to SSD

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I just bought a SSD for my new macbook pro. Does my macbook pro need any firmware update or something like that to make the ssd run well? Or I don't need anything just simply put in the new drive and it will work? Thank you.
 
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SSDs are recognized similarly to other hard drives, so if you pop it in it should work just fine.
 
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I just bought a SSD for my new macbook pro. Does my macbook pro need any firmware update or something like that to make the ssd run well? Or I don't need anything just simply put in the new drive and it will work? Thank you.

Hi
What one did you get?
let us know how it go's as I'm looking at adding one in my Macbook as well as the standard hd..

Cheers
Carl
 
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Hi
What one did you get?
let us know how it go's as I'm looking at adding one in my Macbook as well as the standard hd..

Cheers
Carl

Dittos. Please benchmark it before the install with some sort of standardized and widely available software like XBench et. al. I'd be interested to get a relative idea of what benefits it shows you. Good luck!
-Dave
 
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Mine is the Super talent SSD 256GB that I bought from Newegg. I want to use this with my upcoming 2.93ghz Macbook pro. But I guess I'll do benchmarking first using my other 2.8 Macbook pro.

Here is the spec:
2.8ghz / 4gb ddr3 mem / 256 ssd

The result is 179.38 using Xbench.

I will do another benchmarking using my 2.93 ghz model when it arrives later this week.
 
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Thanks. What was the Xbench score with the standard non-SSD drive?
 

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Is that drive SLC or MLC?
 

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MLC. Price isn't too bad either. $489.00

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I thought the MLC drives were painfully slow in write performance.
 

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From Wikipedia:

SLC versus MLC
Lower priced drives usually use multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory, which is slower and less reliable than single-level cell (SLC) flash memory.[11][12] Still, MLC chips continue to be used in many commercially available SSDs

I've read a number of reviews and it seems that some of the MLC drives can be really bad, to the point that some systems are nearly unusable, which is why I was wondering since the OP had stated they were really happy with the upgrade.
 
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I see. Yesterday I bought Samsung 2.5" Drive at ebay. I think that it uses SLC flash memory, because the price is twice of what I buy at Newegg. Thanks for replying. Will compare the old MLC drive with the newer Samsung SLC drive.
 

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