It’s no wonder that manufacturers moved towards PCIe technology for their bandwidth hungry SSDs. Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is a computer bus standard with incredibly high bandwidth potential, and is the fastest bus option that most computers have available. In short, SATA just wasn’t made for solid state drives. And even if you’re using a SATA III interface, you’re still probably limiting your SSD. But as it applies to SSDs, if you’re not using a SATA III connection, it’s safe to assume you’re limiting the potential of your drive. This can cause some confusion in the event that you connect a hard drive that supports the SATA III standard into a SATA II connector, creating a bottleneck at the SATA II interface that will limit the potential bandwidth of the drive. The SATA standard has now undergone three major revisions, resulting in connectors that are identical in appearance (hurray for backwards compatibility), but with bandwidth doubling each time. The SATA standard’s been in use for many years and is still the most prevalent interface for connecting internal storage drives. SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) refers to the technology standard for connecting hard drives, solid state drive, and optical drives to the computer’s motherboard. Luckily, advances in host interfaces invariably stay ahead of the pace of drive technologies, always allowing room to push speeds a bit farther. If you are, it’s time to get up to speed!Įver faster drive technology, brought about by faster spinning disks, increased cache, advances in controller architecture, and a host of other factors keeps pushing the host interface to become the bottleneck for read and write speeds. If you’re into vintage computers and you think patience is a virtue that can only be honed by waiting for programs to respond, maybe you’re still rocking a drive with a PATA interface. 5AĮvery hard drive or solid state drive you’ve used in the past ten years is likely to have used either a SATA interface, or more recently a PCI Express interface. Generation 1: MacBook Air (Late 2010 – Mid 2011).It has had the original hard drive replaced with a better SSD and the RAM has been upgraded from 4 GB to 16.Included:MacBook 2010Original boxOriginal MagSafe 1 charging cableSpecs:2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Proccesor16 GB DDR3 Ram250 GB SSD13.3 1280 x 800 display Front-facing camera DVD SlotMini DisplayPortSD card slotFirewire 800 Port2 USB 2.0 PortsHeadphone JackEthernet PortMagsafe 1 port Condition: Used, Model: MacBook Pro, Maximum Resolution: 1280 x 800, Operating System: macOS 10.13, High Sierra, Series: MacBook Pro, Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz, Features: Backlit Keyboard, Bluetooth, Built-in Microphone, Built-in Webcam, Color: Silver, Release Year: 2010, Storage Type: SSD (Solid State Drive), Brand: Apple, Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, SSD Capacity: 250 GB, Screen Size: 13. The battery is very used and would need a replacement soon, it usually lasts about 1 hour on battery. This includes the original charging cable which works with no physical damage. The bottom has a few scratches and is missing one leg pad and one screw *see picture*.
It has no damage to the screen, trackpad, keyboard or any of the ports. This is a 2010 MacBook Pro in good shape and is currently running on macOS High Sierra.