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MacBook Pro 2011 SSD Upgrade?
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Assuming it's not the blade type from a retina, go ahead.
3rd party 2.5in SATA drives from the likes of Samsung, Crucial etc work just fine. I had a Crucial M4 in mine for 12 months without any issues.
3rd party 2.5in SATA drives from the likes of Samsung, Crucial etc work just fine. I had a Crucial M4 in mine for 12 months without any issues.
Just so that I have my facts straight, an SSD is less prone to an HD failure due to non moving parts correct? Do you happen to know what issues an SSD may have? I will definitely consider Crucial and Samsung those are some big names.
I don't understand what you are asking.
An SSD has no moving parts. It's a collection of chips on a board, housed in a box. Other than an early OCZ drive that had a firmware bug (update fixed it), I've yet to encounter an SSD that's stopped working.
An SSD has no moving parts. It's a collection of chips on a board, housed in a box. Other than an early OCZ drive that had a firmware bug (update fixed it), I've yet to encounter an SSD that's stopped working.
Woot you've answered what I asked. So I shouldn't fear an HD failure, is eBay a good place to look?
SSDs have a limited number of write cycles available. Blocks become unusable sometime after that number of writes. It's not something to worry about as moderate use will last for 40 to 50 years. High volumes of writes might shorten that to 10to 15 years.
Would you be so kind as to link me? I am in search of 512GB.
What exactly should I be aware of with TRIM?
For performance and longevity of the SSD.
http://www.buildcomputers.net/trim-support.html
Please ignore the windows section..
Would you be so kind as to link me? I am in search of 512GB.
You've not filled out your location information. Unless you live in the UK my local prices are probably very little relevance to you.
Would you be so kind as to link me? I am in search of 512GB.
Samsung EVO here or Crucial MX100 here are about the best bang for the buck right now. Either would be good for your setup. I would get the cheaper MX100.
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This forum uses a software package that converts links to local stores. For example in my post I linked to the USA Amazon store for those SSDs. If you in the UK click my links the forum software should defect you are in the UK then send you to my same product link in the UK store. Pretty slick.
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This forum uses a software package that converts links to local stores. For example in my post I linked to the USA Amazon store for those SSDs. If you in the UK click my links the forum software should defect you are in the UK then send you to my same product link in the UK store. Pretty slick.
No worky!
Goes to amazon.co.uk, then straight back to the US site.
Hmmm... must be busted. So it first takes you to the UK Amazon page then redirects back to the US one?
Yep. Appears in the address bar for a fraction of a second.
Anyway, people should fill in the location field.
Samsung EVO here or Crucial MX100 here are about the best bang for the buck right now. Either would be good for your setup. I would get the cheaper MX100.
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This forum uses a software package that converts links to local stores. For example in my post I linked to the USA Amazon store for those SSDs. If you in the UK click my links the forum software should defect you are in the UK then send you to my same product link in the UK store. Pretty slick.
Thanks so much
I've ordered the MX100 from Amazon US, and I also ordered some Crucial RAM from there too of the 1333MHz configuration. Now, my next question is if I enable TRIM in Mavericks, will Yosemite DP 6 be able to boot without causing me a boot failure?
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Having just done this in a 2011 Pro, I found the whole process very easy to do, I even removed my optical bay for another drive, this can be done as standalone drives or they can be set in a RAID configuration, it depends what you want to go for, but the SSD on its own without the second drive is a huge yes, my boot speed now is around 10-20 seconds, logging in is lightning fast and launching multiple applications is a complete breeze
If you install Yosemite over top of Mavericks it is going to overwrite the kext file you hacked with the TRIM enabler, so it won't hurt anything.
If you install Yosemite on a separate partititon, that too would not impact the TRIM hack in Mavericks.
So will I have to apply TRIM enabler every OS X update after this update to the SSD?
Trimenabler can be set so that it notifies you when trim gets disabled.
Otherwise, yes you pretty much have to apply it every time there is an OS update.