Yes you can even use up to the latest SATA 6 gb/s SSDs but since your Macbook Pro supports only up to SATA 3 gb/s, the SSD will not be used at its full potential. However it will still be a vast upgrade in responsiveness of your machine.

@Ryan:

- are you sure about the SATA-2 support for the late 2008 unibody modells?

- will this also be true for the late 2008 unibody macbook? (it wasn't called 'pro' yet at that time)

reason for my question:

I upgraded my MacBook Unibody Late 2008 2.4GHz to a OCZ Vertex 3 (240GB) SSD ... and though in the system profiler the SATA link speed is stated 3 Gigabit (=SATA-2) it also 'only' states 'negotiated speed' as 1.5 Gigabit (=SATA-1).

am I doing something wrong or is it just that I waited a lot of money buying a SATA-3 SSD to put in a SATA-2 Macbook but which is not able to run at SATA-2 but only at SATA-1 'speed'(=slow motion) with this SSD???

Thx,

SpaceDoc

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Hello!

I am in need of replacing my APPLE SSD 128. Its too small.

1) Which SSD approx. 250GB would be recommendable?; (I like speed)

2) Is there a Ifixit manual that I could use?

MBP 5.1 late 2008

2.8Hz

10K549

W88446821GN

regards Joakim from Norway

SpaceDoc,

Look in to the following link.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/...

Ivan

I specifically recommend against using OCZ Vertex3 in that model macbook pro. I believe it doesn't get along with the Nvidia chipset. I installed a drive and experienced such instability I had to pull it. I'm now running with a WinMate SSD drive in my express card slot which, on its own, is an amazing improvement.

I'm on the hunt for drives known to work with the Late 2008 MBP.

I bought corsair force 180 gb sata 3 ssd becasue my Hytachi macbook HD chrushed. My macbook is a 13 inch black macbook .I purchased that macbook in 2007 in 2007. now that I changed inslatted the ssd , my macbook doesn't recognize that and when I turned on my macc book it was flashing the file-question mark sign . need help if anyone knows what to do ..

I tried both full ssd and hybrid drives in my unibody late 2008 and neither worked in the drive bay; i bought an adapter and put in the optical bay and it works perfectly.

I have installed a Kingston 120GB V+200 SSD into my late 2008 model and it works just fine (not at the sata3 speed but much faster than the stock hard drive).

I also bought a optical drive bracket for the old drive which I now use as a storage area.

Whilst I had the laptop open I also cleaned out the fans as it was getting hot during normal use.

All of this has made my mac like new again! Well worth the effort!!