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Late 2008 MBP - SATA1.5 or SATA3 HDs?
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Oct 16, 2008, 09:00 AM
 
All I can see is "Serial ATA" on the Tech Specs page(s). Given the lack of availability of 1.5HDs, I'm assuming it's SATA 3?

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Oct 16, 2008, 10:47 AM
 
To the best of my knowledge there's not a single HDD that would fit the MBP and comes even close to pushing 1.5 Gbps.
     
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Oct 16, 2008, 12:26 PM
 
It's 3Gbps, but it doesn't matter at all.

Simon: Indeed, only for a few microseconds to fill/empty the cache.
     
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Oct 16, 2008, 03:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by mduell View Post
Simon: Indeed, only for a few microseconds to fill/empty the cache.
Sustained.
     
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Oct 16, 2008, 03:47 PM
 
Overruled!

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Oct 16, 2008, 08:30 PM
 
Gotcha guys, thanks. I just wanted to know which format to buy. Stopped following all of this when I bought my first Mac and IDE was the norm. All this SATA business is new and strange
     
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Oct 25, 2008, 11:07 PM
 
IIRC, all the laptop SATA drives on sale at newegg are 3.0gbps anyway so it's probably a moot point.
     
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Oct 26, 2008, 03:20 AM
 
At 7200 rpm they have a single 1.5Gbps drive. It's got a 100 GB.

But at 5400 rpm there are a lot.
     
   
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