Early 2009 MacBook SSD compatibility

Hello. My MacBook is early 2009 with 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, 120 GB hard drive. Now OS x 10.6.8 but intend to upgrade to El Capitan.

I want to spend my hard drive to a Solid State Drive. Transcend SSD370S series is available in my place.

Can I use the SSD of 256 GB of this series on my MacBook with no problems?

Here is the link for the site of Transcend. Compatibility list on their Web site does not include Apple laptops.

http://www.transcend-info.com/products/no-631

Thank you.

I have a Macbook in early 2009 and put a Samsung (pre Evo) 840 SSD inside and the speed is incredible, it feels like a brand new computer. Your Macbook has a Nvidia MCP79 SATA 3 Gb/s controller and there is a conflict between the controllers on some SSD only allowing them to operate to SATA 1.5 Gb/s, so you must be careful 6 Gbps. The conflict I know with certainty is with SSD using a Sandforce controller, but recently posted one here in their car with a controller Marvell only running at half speed so there may be others. TranSend uses what they call a TS6500, which is actually a renamed SiliconMotion SM2246EN controller and I can't find the evedience either way if it will work with the SATA 3 Gb speed with the Nvidia controller. Confused yet? I think that the essential is that we put 2015 (2016 ok) technology in 2009 computers and computer terms this year 6 scale is enormous, there may be incompatibilities. Probably the BEST way to avoid is to find a 3Gb SSD or a 6 GB SSD that is guaranteed to work in your Macbook. OWC has a line of 3 GB disks, which are more expensive but guaranteed to work http://eshop.macsales.com/

If you have to pay a little more to get a compatible drive, it is well worth. Add SSD to my Macbook and my iMac end of 2009 were the best computer improvements I've ever done.

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