[joe]

I own a 15" unibody MacBook Pro at 2.4GHz. This is the 2008 model with removable battery and express card slot. I'd like to swap the 5400rpm hard drive for a new SSD hard drive and was wondering what higher performance models work best.

I briefly had an original 80GB Intel SSD drive installed which had amazing read performance, but so-so write performance. I've read that some newer MLC drives have managed to improve write performance considerably. Does anyone have experience with these newer models? Which are better? Which are best avoided? Thanks.

[mduell]

Anand Lal Shimpi's two part series covers everything you need to know: SSD Anthology, SSD Relapse

The write performance situation has changed dramatically with the newer controllers. The X25-E 64GB (SLC) is still the king of the hill.