Replacing the Hard Drive of Macbook Pro Mid 2010
One of the bad purchase decisions that I ever made was to buy an Apple product without following its release schedule. Just two months after buying the Macbook Pro late 2010, Apple released the Macbook Pro 2011. The reason why it was a big deal is because the 2011's is so much different with its predecessor. One of the huge difference is that the 2011's supports SATA 3.0 while the 2010's only supports SATA 2.0. This means that if you would enjoy the full speed of SSD 6Gb/s when installing an SSD SATA III 6Gb/s, while installing in the 2010's would result in the negotiated speed of 3Gb/s, given that you install the compatible SSD product. After searching around in the Google, I finally came to a summarized fact that Macbook Pros before 2011 came with a buggy graphic card - NVidia MCP89 AHCI. Many people reported that they only got the negotiated speed of 1.5 Gb/s (same speed as a SATA drive with 7200 rpm, which makes the SSD upgrade looks like a joke) when they install...
