Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Date: 22 Feb 2017 19:06:36 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <9KqdnTcrwPsDyTDFnZ2dnUU7-KPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <220220171107197456%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220220171121308492%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220220171145425633%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220220171337076745%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net WcWCrOrS/1NeCTMPbqZlcgFF/wqOxlOWtPldZJ0v5EONp3e0+s Cancel-Lock: sha1:h9/Dol75zj6p0YrukHhfBoUNrSk= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:1443 comp.sys.mac.portables:1146 comp.sys.mac.system:100920 On 2017-02-22, nospam wrote: > In article , Jolly Roger > wrote: > >> >> >> Or OWC... >> >> > >> >> > crucial is a much better choice >> >> >> >> Why? >> > >> > owc is a house brand with an unknown controller. >> >> So what? How does this make it worse choice exactly? My OWC SSDs have >> run just fine for years with different model Macs. >> >> > crucial is an established name brand who makes their own memory and >> > whose ssd controllers are known to not have firmware issues with the >> > ata chips in some older macs (and pcs for that matter which use the >> > same chipset). >> >> Have OWC SSDs had firmware issues? Citation please. > > the issue is that certain ssd controllers and nvidia sata chipsets will > not negotiate the maximum link speed. it will still work, but not at > optimal speeds. > > crucial uses their own controller and is known to not have problems, at > least with the mx series of ssds. i'm not sure about bx, but the price > difference isn't cheap enough to bother with bx, even if it does work. > > owc does not disclose which controller they use (that i can find), but > it's likely sandforce, which is commonly used many ssds. unfortunately > sandforce *does* have issues with nvidia sata chipsets. Pretty sure OWC does use SandForce controllers. > later macs (and pcs) don't have this issue, in which case, samsung is > also a good choice. I guess that explains why I haven't seen any performance issues with my OWC SSDs. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR