I have tried sticking an Intel X25-M G2 (160GB) drive in my 13" MBP (mid-2010) but noticed that Windows under bootcamp essentially doesn't work any more. OS X works perfectly on the SSD, though.
I'll describe the problem briefly so that you understand the type of compatibility issue that exists with the X25 drive and bootcamp:
Windows installer boots fine (consistently starts from DVD) but at the stage where you would normally select the drive/partition to install to most of the time there is no drive found.
If you manage to get Windows on the drive (either by moving the drive to another machine and installing there or by retrying the installer until it finds the drive) you get the same kind of problem at the boot stage too. In the menu you get by holding down the option key there is a Windows choice but almost all of the time, picking Windows results in a Apple-y blinking folder with a question mark on it after a couple of seconds of delay.
It seems like the drive is detected/made available/whatever with something like a 1/50 chance, so if you're really really stubborn it will start, but it's not really practical.
Searching on the subject, this appears to be a known issue with threads such a this (just one example out of several):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12423720
If anyone has any suggestions on how to actually fix that, I'd be more than happy to try those out. (Suspicions are that it's related to the nvidia chipset, somehow... But who really knows.)
Anyway, at this stage what I find more realistic without Apple and/or Intel releasing an update for whatever causes the problem (EFI/system firmware/drive firmware/bootcamp/whatnot) is if anyone have any recommendations for SSDs that they know are fully compatible with the 2010 13" MBP?
For instance, does anyone know for a fact if the OCZ Vertex2(E) works?
I'll describe the problem briefly so that you understand the type of compatibility issue that exists with the X25 drive and bootcamp:
Windows installer boots fine (consistently starts from DVD) but at the stage where you would normally select the drive/partition to install to most of the time there is no drive found.
If you manage to get Windows on the drive (either by moving the drive to another machine and installing there or by retrying the installer until it finds the drive) you get the same kind of problem at the boot stage too. In the menu you get by holding down the option key there is a Windows choice but almost all of the time, picking Windows results in a Apple-y blinking folder with a question mark on it after a couple of seconds of delay.
It seems like the drive is detected/made available/whatever with something like a 1/50 chance, so if you're really really stubborn it will start, but it's not really practical.
Searching on the subject, this appears to be a known issue with threads such a this (just one example out of several):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12423720
If anyone has any suggestions on how to actually fix that, I'd be more than happy to try those out. (Suspicions are that it's related to the nvidia chipset, somehow... But who really knows.)
Anyway, at this stage what I find more realistic without Apple and/or Intel releasing an update for whatever causes the problem (EFI/system firmware/drive firmware/bootcamp/whatnot) is if anyone have any recommendations for SSDs that they know are fully compatible with the 2010 13" MBP?
For instance, does anyone know for a fact if the OCZ Vertex2(E) works?
