I say “seems to,” as we’ve received multiple units with the ‘dual 6Gb/s’ setup, but after getting 17″ MacBook Pros with the dual 6Gb/s setup in multiple deliveries this month, the 17” we received earlier in this week was back to 6Gb/s in the main bay and 3Gb/s in the optical.īottom line, it is not a spec Apple includes (what SATA connection will be in each bay) and currently is no correlation we have found to explain why a new unit this week was different than the units received over the past couple. Units we’ve purchased over the past month indicate that Apple seems to be changing over to having 6Gb/s connectivity in both the main drive bay and in the optical bay. ( Note: For the remainder of this piece – I will refer to the two connections as 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s) Ok… To the details… SATA 3.0 6Gb/s in the Optical Bay?Īll of the 13-, 15-, and 17-inch 2011 MacBook Pros we purchased right at release shipped with SATA 3.0 6Gb/s connectivity in the main drive bay and SATA 2.0 3Gb/s connectivity in the optical bay. FWIW, our shielding kit does make a difference for some, but not all, as there is just significant enough variability in the issue which means it ultimately needs to be resolved by Apple themselves.
#Ssd drive for macbook pro 2011 update#
If we’re lucky, it will be a fix handled via some software update it would seem more likely to require a hardware adjustment, but we’ll see.
Again, I do believe they will… I also believe it is in everyone’s best interest that they do fix it, with respect to the incredible performance that our SSDs unleash in these fantastic MacBook Pro 2011 models. It’s not so sweet at this point, but I will at least try to keep it as short as possible.īefore going any further, I do want to be clear that, while I believe the issues noted should be and will be resolved, Apple makes no advertisement-in specification or otherwise-that creates any obligation for them to fix the issues noted.
Since we first looked at a potential fix for problems with SATA 3.0 operation in the main bay of the 2011 MacBook Pros on April 15, we’ve learned much more.
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