
The primary (HDD) SATA port is SATA3 (6Gbps ~ 700 MB/sec ish) while the secondary (optical drive's) port is SATA2 (3Gbps ~ 350MB/sec ish) so you definitely want to put any SSD in the primary SATA port where the main HDD is/was. replacing the DVD drive with a second disk) bear in mind that the two SATA ports are of different speeds in the mid-2010 MBP.
#Macbook pro mid 2010 ssd upgrade kit upgrade#
OWC 500GB Aura Pro 6G SSD Upgrade for 2012-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display (OWCS3DAP12R500) 159. One final point, if using a data-doubler or similar (i.e. INDMEM 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD 3D TLC NAND Flash Hard Drive Disk 512G Only for Late 2013 - Mid 2015 MacBook Pro, Mid 2013-2017 MacBook Air, Late 2013-2017 iMac, Late 2013 Mac Pro, Late 2014 Mac Mini. And unless you're doing some heavy video editing or really disk-heavy work, I'd suggest the performance differences won't be noticed. Sure it was nice having ~400MB/s+ (not sure what speed it actually ran at) but I didn't do a lot of work that truly utilised the top-speed of the SSD, so the performance differences were pretty moot.

For me, the top-end drive speed difference didn't mean all that much, because primarily I was after the low seek speeds. I believe there is an EFI limitation in OS X Mountain Lion that will not allow the 2010 i5/i7 Macbook Pros to be upgraded over. The type of RAM needed is DDR3 PC3-8500 1066. If you have a 2010 MacBook Pro Core2Duo (13'), then you are in luck and you can upgrade to 16GB RAM. OWC 1.0TB Aura Pro X2 SSD for MacBook Air (Mid 2013-2017), and MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 - Mid 2015) Computers (OWCS3DAPT4MB10) 4. I also found some vendors saying that (at the time) the Intel 330s were seeing less RAs than some other similarly priced brands I was looking at this may or may not be the case right now, and I was only able to compare a few brands. Mac Mini Late-2009 HDD/SSD Upgrade Guide (MacMini3,1) MacBook Pro Early-2008 15-inch Dual Drive Installation Guide (MacBookPro4,1) MacBook Mid-2007 13-inch HDD/SSD Replacement Guide (MacBook2,1) iMac Mid-2010 21. Transcend Jetdrive 500 480GB SSD Upgrade Kit for MacBook Air (Late 2010 - Mid 2011) (includes tools and SSD enclosure) - available now at for 339.99. Any mid-2010 MacBook Pro i5 or i7 is limited to a maximum of 8GB RAM. Apples own drive options begin at 64 GB for the 11.6-inch model and top out at. I found people saying they'd successfully used the Intels (and well most brands actually). All three drives are compatible with both the 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch MacBook Air models introduced in October 2010. Personally I looked around for info on the most reliable SSDs rather than the fastest.

It worked for me, and it's TRIM compatible but you need to use TRIM Enabler or similar to turn it on. The performance difference (compared to stock 500GB HDD) was amazing.
#Macbook pro mid 2010 ssd upgrade kit series#
I put an Intel 330 series SSD in my mid-2010 MBP.
