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2006 White Macbook - HDD died, current era SSDs ok to install?

I put a 120GB SSD into my mom's Core Duo blackbook. It runs really really well now, boots in about 15-20 seconds, stuff launches so fast. It is practically a whole new machine.

But yea, if space isn't needed, get a 64GB SSD, aim for SATAII one, since the old Core Duos only had SATA interfaces they topped out at 150MB/s, which almost any SSD from the previous... 3 or more generations could do.
 
TheStu said:
I put a 120GB SSD into my mom's Core Duo blackbook. It runs really really well now, boots in about 15-20 seconds, stuff launches so fast. It is practically a whole new machine.

But yea, if space isn't needed, get a 64GB SSD, aim for SATAII one, since the old Core Duos only had SATA interfaces they topped out at 150MB/s, which almost any SSD from the previous... 3 or more generations could do.
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Thanks for the anecdote. Just so I'm clear, if I do go with that 64Gb Crucial I linked above, it should still work even though it's SATAIII?
 
SSDs are a great way to breath life into old laptops. SATA is backwards compatible AFAIK so you should be good. You'll need to be running Lion though to get TRIM support.
 
mmntech said:
SSDs are a great way to breath life into old laptops. SATA is backwards compatible AFAIK so you should be good. You'll need to be running Lion though to get TRIM support.
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I don't think she can go above Snow Leopard since it's not a 64-bit machine (it's a white macbook from 2006).
 
pg22 said:
I don't think she can go above Snow Leopard since it's not a 64-bit machine (it's a white macbook from 2006).
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Even if that MacBook is Lion-compatible (November 2006 or later), I wouldn't recommend it based on limited RAM.

Apparently the TRIM enabler does work on Snow Leopard too; or you can buy an SSD that does auto garbage collection instead of relying on OS TRIM support.
 
pg22 said:
Thanks for the anecdote. Just so I'm clear, if I do go with that 64Gb Crucial I linked above, it should still work even though it's SATAIII?
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Yes it would still work, and that is a really well reviewed one.
 
dclive said:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0351760

I have 3 of these in a (software...bleh) RAID set on a PC. They seem to work well. I got them when the price was a little lower than the $99 these are listed as; for the extra few bucks I'd get a better name brand nowadays, but if they went back on sale, I would buy these again.
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I have that microcenter drive in my laptop as well. That sandforce controller was buggy with suspend/resume and, iirc, never completely fixed. I just set my laptop to hibernate instead.

OP, go with that M4 you linked.

Also, enabling trim support in snow leopard:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/05/how-to-enable-trim-on-your-macs-solid-state-drive/
 
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