Best bargain hard drive/SSD for MBP 2008 (SATA, not II interface)

[Robert M]

Silvarios,

THe other issue is that Apple appears to be using more proprietary drives in their machines. So, if you buy an SSD, it's not necessarily going to work properly in a newer mac. 'course, an SSD in a USB 3.0 case is still worthwhile if a new machine already has an SSD and USB 3.0. It'll make cloning the drive for backups via SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner that much faster.

Robert

[tahoedrew]

I saw that too yesterday macbeergeek2... I may go that direction; thanks!

~Andrew

macbeergeek2 wrote:
This seems like a good deal, and gets great reviews, enough so that I'm considering getting one myself...

http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-2...roduct_top

[MrNoBody]

Robert M - wrote:
THe other issue is that Apple appears to be using more proprietary drives in their machines. So, if you buy an SSD, it's not necessarily going to work properly in a newer mac.

...driving more OS X users to build their own HacPro or
hack an off the shelf laptop miley-rpg028:

[silvarios]

MrNoBody wrote:
[quote=Robert M -]
THe other issue is that Apple appears to be using more proprietary drives in their machines. So, if you buy an SSD, it's not necessarily going to work properly in a newer mac.

...driving more OS X users to build their own HacPro or
hack an off the shelf laptop miley-rpg028:
Yep. Some users are likely to be tempted. I had three. Well, more like HacBasic for me.

[silvarios]

Robert M wrote:
Silvarios,

THe other issue is that Apple appears to be using more proprietary drives in their machines. So, if you buy an SSD, it's not necessarily going to work properly in a newer mac.

Exactly my original point. A 2.5" SSD is not a future proof addition in the sense you will likely need a different form factor for internal use once upgraded to the new Mac. Sure, you would still have a speedy low capacity external drive, but most of my external drives are much bigger than the inexpensive 120GB SSDs out there at the moment. As much as I wish for more speed, I need the capacity for honest to goodness traditional data storage when it comes to external storage. No, I don't have thousands for the same capacity as SSD. I wish.