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

[pg22]

Hello,

My mother's HDD in her White 2006 Macbook died. Gone for good. I'm thinking of replacing the dead HDD w/ an SSD, since she doesn't have need for a massive amount of space. I know the bus speed will be limited, but I just wanted to be sure if I bought one of these, they would work:

http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-ultr...223179031.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148441

Does anyone foresee any issues?

Thanks!

 

[Patranus]

Probably isn't worth it.

 

[dclive]

It should work fine. I'd get a 64GB, and I'd find one for less than $109!

 

[pg22]

It should work fine. I'd get a 64GB, and I'd find one for less than $109!

Where?

 

[TheStu]

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.

 

[dclive]

Microcenter.

 

[pg22]

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.

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?

 

[mmntech]

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.

 

[pg22]

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.

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).

 

[manly]

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).

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.

 

[mmntech]

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).

I forgot that Lion doesn't support the Core Duo.

 

[TheStu]

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?

Yes it would still work, and that is a really well reviewed one.

 

[dclive]

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.

 

[Rottie]

did you install SSD yet?

 

[Gooberlx2]

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.

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/