High-capacity SSD for laptop use?

[rafatmit]

Hi everyone,

I've decided finally to take the plunge and replace the hard drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. For various reasons I don't want to replace my optical drive with a hard drive, and this is my only computer (and it travels between two cities), so I need a fairly large SSD. As far as I can tell my options are:

* OWC 480 GB Mercury Extreme Pro ($920 from OWC)
* Apple/Toshiba 512 GB SSD off of eBay (~$1200)
* Kingston V+100 512 GB ($1285 from newegg)
* OCZ Vertex 2 480 GB (out of stock from newegg)
* Intel 320 series 600 GB ($1069 list, but not yet available from anyone)
* Crucial m4 512 GB (no pricing yet)

Anything I'm missing? This is for a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, so SATA III would be a waste. Since this will be my first SSD, I will have a major speed boost no matter what so don't need necessarily the fastest model. Right now I'm leaning toward the OWC or the Intel, largely for price reasons, but I'm open to any of these…

Thanks very much!

 

[Daemas]

i believe all of those are out of the question due to the fact that you need a special apple drive with the proprietary themal sensor or else your fans are going to be running 100% all the time due to the computer thinking the HDD is on fire.

 

[rafatmit]

i believe all of those are out of the question due to the fact that you need a special apple drive with the proprietary themal sensor or else your fans are going to be running 100% all the time due to the computer thinking the HDD is on fire.

Any links you can point me to? I've never heard of this problem. (Running a Seagate Momentus XT right now; no fans running out of control.)

 

[spooky69]

Utter nonsense.

 

[Daemas]

Any links you can point me to? I've never heard of this problem. (Running a Seagate Momentus XT right now; no fans running out of control.)

then you're ok. There is some model of Apple computer. I wanted to say it was mid 2010 MBP, but obviously not. maybe mid2010 imac. i know it's one of the ones with 2.5" drives

edit: late 09 imacs

 

[taltamir]

* Intel 320 series 600 GB ($1069 list, but not yet available from anyone)
* Crucial m4 512 GB (no pricing yet)

Get either of those two.