Toshiba MK1059 GSM in MacBookPro5,5
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I had issues with my Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB… It felt very slow… But
it also only had 10% free space left…
It’s been two weeks I’m trying to work on this… Defragmentation, Onyx on the
system… Maybe it’s just to full… Thank my Sanyo HD1010 for that… So
let’s go for it… upgrading to 8GB of RAM (from stock 4GB) and to TOSHIBA
MK1059GSM 1TB.
So far, so good, everything went well.
The 8GB of RAM are recognised and I can now see a nice “6GB free” message in
the Activity Monitor. I choose two Kingston KVR1066D3S7/4G ; in fact, I
first went to buy some from Corsair but it wasn’t available in the store.
Thanks to my 100€ fidelity rebate, than only costed me 40€ :-D
The Information System does not recognise it… it says:
Taille : 4 Go
Type : DDR3
Vitesse : 1067 MHz
État : OK
Fabricant : 0x0198
Numéro de pièce : 0x393930353432382D3032302E4130304C4620
But it seems to work.
The SSD is the one that I previously had ; the SAMSUNG MMDOE28G5MPP-0VA 128GB. The only thing that changed is that is put it in the DVD caddy adapter rather than in the disk “slot”. The system is installed on it and it boots like a charm.
Then, the big update… The TOSHIBA MK1059GSM 1TB. It sits in the standard
disk place and I moved /Users onto it. No sound while restoring the data, no
vibration, no particular heat… Feels great!
The Information System app says:
TOSHIBA MK1059GSM :
Capacité : 1 To (1 000 204 886 016 octets)
Modèle : TOSHIBA MK1059GSM
Révision : GL001U
NCQ (Native Command Queuing) : Oui
Profondeur de la file d’attente : 32
Support amovible : Non
Disque amovible : Non
Nom BSD : disk1
Vitesse de rotation : 5400
Type de carte de partition : GPT (Tableau de partition GUID)
État S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié
Volumes :
Utilisateurs :
Capacité : 999,86 Go (999 860 912 128 octets)
Disponible : 961,39 Go (961 392 644 096 octets)
Inscriptible : Oui
Système de fichiers : HFS+ journalisé
Nom BSD : disk1s2
Point de montage : /Users
For the record, this Toshiba disk is one of those new three-platter
12.5-millimeter-high disk. The question was: would it fit in the MacBook Pro.
And the answer is YES!
My MBP is the MacBookPro5,5. It’s the Mid-2009 13" family ; the first
MBP 13" Unibody with a SD-Card slot.
That’s all folks!