I have an old CoreDuo MacBook Pro, with the 2GB RAM limit. I spend a lot of time waiting on disk. (iStat Menus will show I have available RAM and minimal CPU usage, but the disk indicator is constantly churning.)
I've been thinking of upgrading the stock 100GB, 5400rpm disk to an SSD. I'm wondering if anyone has tried them in this specific model. I have it in the back of my head that the SATA controller is actually part of the bottleneck, but I have no idea where I read that. I don't necessarily need to actually achieve 200MB/sec. reads and writes, but it's a lucky day if I can exceed 5MB/sec. right now, and that's really awful even for a 5400rpm disk. I don't want to invest $300 on an SSD and find out that the motherboard/SATA chip is going to limit me.
Please note that I am specifically interested in the throughput on an old CoreDuo MBP. There are plenty of other threads about more general SSD questions, but I can't find any existing threads asking what I'm asking, hence the new thread.
Thanks in advance!
I've been thinking of upgrading the stock 100GB, 5400rpm disk to an SSD. I'm wondering if anyone has tried them in this specific model. I have it in the back of my head that the SATA controller is actually part of the bottleneck, but I have no idea where I read that. I don't necessarily need to actually achieve 200MB/sec. reads and writes, but it's a lucky day if I can exceed 5MB/sec. right now, and that's really awful even for a 5400rpm disk. I don't want to invest $300 on an SSD and find out that the motherboard/SATA chip is going to limit me.
Please note that I am specifically interested in the throughput on an old CoreDuo MBP. There are plenty of other threads about more general SSD questions, but I can't find any existing threads asking what I'm asking, hence the new thread.
Thanks in advance!