Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

email from tech at work

Not sure if you are aware SATA ports negotiate link speeds between a macbook and a hard drive.. For Samsung ssd’s it should link at 6Gb’s but have noticed on at least one new macbook pro the negotiated speed is 1.5gb ¾ less than is should be, this will most likely cause a bottleneck and users will get the pinwheel a lot of the time (depending on how much data the user is processing ofcourse)..

Ive done a bit of digging on the net and found other users with the same issue, the only solution to this is to send the drives back to be swapped as faulty...

Wasnt aware of that. With the older Macbooks (mines 2008) it's only sata2 (maybe 1) bus speed anyway so don't unfortunately get the most the drive can offer. I've run trim enabler and am running Lion....have I just been lucky with this drive then I wonder? Defo loads quicker than the old one that came out.