Comments on: MacBook: SATA150 vs. SATA300

By: DAVID

DAVID — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:49:09 +0000

Hello!

Could i use a Hard Drive SATA 3 (6gb/s) in my iMac Intel Core 2 Duo (Late 2006), wich uses SATA 1’5?

Thank You!

By: DN

DN — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:37 +0000

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MacBook - Replaced Hard Drive. Problem Now... - Mac-Forums.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:39:15 +0000

[...] read several posts of people with Macbooks that installed a SATA 300 drive and it worked great. MacBook: SATA150 vs. SATA300 One example. Found several. __________________ Forum [...]

By: Alejandro Lobos Kunstmann

Alejandro Lobos Kunstmann — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:49:40 +0000

Hi. I’m looking for the exact same drive on a black macbook 2.2GHz. I’m sick of the constant bottleneck that the hard disk is for the entire system so I want to know if you have noticed change in boot times, program opening times, VM paging times, etc. Is it worth to replace or it’s pretty much the same (taking into account that the interface is SATA150)?

By: Klaus Kjeldsen

Klaus Kjeldsen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:15:34 +0000

In short, and take into account the short time I have had the new hard drive in use, my conclusions are:

Heat:
I don’t think that there is a noticeable change in the generation of heat, during normal use iStat shows a temperature of 35-40 degree celsius.

Noise:
The disk might have a vague whistling sound when spinning, but nothing that is at all annoying.

Power:
My battery is after 2 years only at a health of 50% (iStat), so I don’t think that it can be a measure for power usage.

Speed:
I think that I gained a bit of speed performance, but the new hard drive is also a 7200prm compared to the original 5400rpm hard drive.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:39:58 +0000

Hi, I’m looking into my options on the harddrive front. I have a first generation Macbook 2 ghz and I have been looking at the exact same drive you have bought.

What are your experiences with the harddrive? Does it generate more heat than the standard drive? Is it more noisy? And does it use more power than the standard drive?