The upgrade wasn’t that hard to do: it takes 30mn, in a quiet room and a camera (to take shots step by step not to loose anything while rebuilding the MBP). Peaceful and zen is the key!
I used a white A4 paper to simulate the MBP and put all the screws around or on it at the place it was on the MBP. It helps.

I reformated it for Mac (Guild partition) with 10.6.2 and did 2 partitions on it: one for system (45go) which I did clone it with carbonclonecopy, the other one for storage purpose (Itunes library on it).
Now I can clone the system disk pretty easily and quick (15mn) whenever needed, especially if it slows down too much in the future (no trim).

I ran Xbench (I know its not the best, but…) and got a 150 vs 50 at disk test vs my old 7200 Momentus. Only point, at write speed for big files (like divx movie for example) it never got over 70 Mo/s in real world. It scores at random 4ko files write and read: 9mo to 12 mo/s vs not even 1,5mo/s with Momentus.

Its very fast at starting computer and launching apps. Absolutely silent too (I love that). I did not notice special battery improvement (maybe some but too small to be noticed). Heat seems better.

This P128 works well: I originally bought the X128, replaced it twice for it did not work at all.
Got good support from Corsair customer service.

I was under the impression that the MBP’s downgraded SATA speeds were resolved with a firmware update. Even without the full SATA 3Gbps rates, the SSD card has a 220MB/s rate, and that’s still under the 3Gbps spec. If you use Google to calculate the transfer speeds (Google 220MB/s in Gbps) of the Corsair SSD, you’ll see that it’s roughly 1.7 Gbps. It’s fast, but it’s not 3Gbps fast, you know?

Jason

I don’t normally tell people to hold off on buying things like this awesome SSD, but in this case I’m going to advise you to hold out just a little longer.

Earlier this week I spoke to someone at Corsair about my SSD. In that conversation, I was told that in the next 3-4 weeks Corsair is going to be announcing and releasing the updated version of this drive. It’ll have newer firmware and will handle certain processes and data loads with even greater efficiency.

If it wasn’t for the updated drives coming soon, I’d tell you to buy now and enjoy. But if you wait just a little bit, you’ll probably be even happier. According to Corsair, anyway. Just my two rubles worth of 2nd hand advice…

Jason

P.S. I’m using the 17″ 2.66GHZ MacBook Pro these days. Great machine.

how difficult was it to replace your 500gb drive to an ssd?

how did you handle the information transfer from the first drive to the new drive? did you reinstall OSX and your programs or did you clone your ssd? if you did a hard reinstall of osx from the recovery discs, how would you go about partitioning the drive into the journal standard. what i cant visualize is after i remove the old drive with all my information on it and install the ssd, the new drive is basically blank and not formatted into any standard like journal or fat32, so how exactly would i cope with this? basically, the thought of installing the ssd and going to boot the laptop with nothing showing up is scaring me a lot, so if you can provide some tips on how i should go about this it would really be helpful. i am also buying the p256 since my old hd is also 256gb, that way i will have the same size, just faster!!