So, I was able to snatch up good deal on Kingston v300 120gb SSDs on black Friday. It never crossed my mind that the macs they're going in, a macbook pro core duo, and and iMac core duo (4,1 flashed to 5,1 EFI) use sata I (1.5) interfaces, and the drives are SATA 3.0, with built in backwards compatibility to SATA 2.0. I emailed Kingston and they said:

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It theoretically will work, but we do not support these drives in SATA I ports and I have seen them not work in some older SATA I systems.

I'm just wondering if anyone's successfully used a Kingston drive in one of these macs? 'Theoretically' scares me. I know they're not the fastest SSD's but it won't matter on the old bus. They'll still be a lot faster than the stock hard drives. Thanks all.

I'd give it a try, if you cannot find anyone with personal experience.

Worst case, you pull them out and put them in an external firewire case as a boot drive. Will be fine.

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Worst case, you pull them out and put them in an external firewire case as a boot drive. Will be fine.

That's the plan.

Ive got a Kensington SSD in a 2006 Core Duo Macbook, works fine.

I see nio "technical" reason it wouldnt work. Just like ATA 133 drives worked fine on ATA 16 busses in a Beige G3

That old iMac is a PITA to get into. Pretty sure the V300s come with a USB 2 case, you could start that way with the iMac

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I have the exact same drive in a white macbook with the same 1.5 SATA. Works fine here as well. It had sleep issues a couple times for a little bit after the swap, but somehow it fixed itself. I don't know what kind of voodoo that was, but oh well. I wasn't too worried about it because it was a secondary machine. At any rate, though, it's probably worth mentioning. Could have been something specific to my setup. Works fine now, though.

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I have the exact same drive in a white macbook with the same 1.5 SATA. Works fine here as well. It had sleep issues a couple times for a little bit after the swap, but somehow it fixed itself. I don't know what kind of voodoo that was, but oh well. I wasn't too worried about it because it was a secondary machine. At any rate, though, it's probably worth mentioning. Could have been something specific to my setup. Works fine now, though.

Thanks! Good to have confirmation I almost never sleep these machines, so even if there is a sleep problem, it's not an issue. I assume you saw a nice speed increase, too?



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I have the exact same drive in a white macbook with the same 1.5 SATA. Works fine here as well. It had sleep issues a couple times for a little bit after the swap, but somehow it fixed itself. I don't know what kind of voodoo that was, but oh well. I wasn't too worried about it because it was a secondary machine. At any rate, though, it's probably worth mentioning. Could have been something specific to my setup. Works fine now, though.

Thanks! Good to have confirmation I almost never sleep these machines, so even if there is a sleep problem, it's not an issue. I assume you saw a nice speed increase, too?

Definitely worth doing. Probably wasn't necessary. My wife uses it for eBay listing and that's about it. I picked up the system second hand and did the upgrade shortly after, but it was a noticeable difference for sure.

We have 2 OWC SATA III SSDs in a:

MacBook 1,1 with SATA I
MacBook Pro 3,1 with SATA1

Work great and very fast. People in Mrs Zealand's office remarked how fast her old 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo MBPro with 6GB RAM and a 120GB SSD seemed to be. Because they all had new quad core MBPs stuck with regular spinny HDDs.

'Course she just got a 2.3Quad 16GB Retina Haswell MBP to replace it as the old MBP's screen was a-goin' down for the count, which those machines are known for.

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'Course she just got a 2.3Quad 16GB Retina Haswell MBP to replace it as the old MBP's screen was a-goin' down for the count, which those machines are known for.

Try baking the logic board, seriously.