Macbook pro 2010 replacing dvd drive with 2nd hard drive

[mojohojo]

Hi,

Am looking to upgrade my mid-2010 macbook pro by removing the dvd-drive and replacing it with a SSD hard-drive.
Since its quite old and only support SATA II 1.5gb/s; should i get the cheapest SSD on the market or pay and get a reliable one ie. Samsung evo 850. The cheapest being 'SanDisk SSD Plus'.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Hi,

Am looking to upgrade my mid-2010 macbook pro by removing the dvd-drive and replacing it with a SSD hard-drive.
Since its quite old and only support SATA II 1.5gb/s; should i get the cheapest SSD on the market or pay and get a reliable one ie. Samsung evo 850. The cheapest being 'SanDisk SSD Plus'.

To be honest sandisk make good disks and as you say SATA 2 limits you anyway, go cheap, also consider putting the SSD in the main bay and swapping the HDD into the optical bay for extra atorage, there can be a few little issues with the boot disk in the optical bay , it should be make no difference but anecdotally, on here, it's better with the sssd in the main drive bay.

 

[mojohojo]

To be honest sandisk make good disks and as you say SATA 2 limits you anyway, go cheap, also consider putting the SSD in the main bay and swapping the HDD into the optical bay for extra atorage, there can be a few little issues with the boot disk in the optical bay , it should be make no difference but anecdotally, on here, it's better with the sssd in the main drive bay.

thanks! will go for the cheapest then!