Macbook Pro Ram Upgrade

[Meister]

That's very slow. A normal HDD should be around 90 MB/s.

A current hdd will reach 85mb/s if you are lucky. From my experience its more like 75mb/s.

Do I need more ram as well. Currently my mac starts up in like 30 seconds from a cold shutdown state to fully useable.

You don't seem to follow my advice. I will repeat this:
From what you have posted so far noone can possible know if you need more ram. They are guessing!!
Check your memory pressure while your system beachballs or slows down. Is it yellow/red? Then you need ram.

30seconds is a very fast startup for a machine running with an hdd.

Would 250gb be enough?

How is anybody supposed to know how much storage you need?

 

[Onewinged37]

A current hdd will reach 85mb/s if you are lucky. From my experience its more like 75mb/s.

You don't seem to follow my advice. I will repeat this:
From what you have posted so far noone can possible know if you need more ram. They are guessing!!
Check your memory pressure while your system beachballs or slows down. Is it yellow/red? Then you need ram.

30seconds is a very fast startup for a machine running with an hdd.



How is anybody supposed to know how much storage you need?

Wow, ease up, man. Hopefully other people on this forum aren't as short-tempered as you are, otherwise I'll be seeking advice elsewhere.

 

[Meister]

Wow, ease up, man. Hopefully other people on this forum aren't as short-tempered as you are, otherwise I'll be seeking advice elsewhere.

I was pointing out that you should first find out what the problem is before you buy upgrades and save yourself grief.

Here: ...

Check your memory pressure when you're experiencing lag, if it's in the green then RAM is not your problem.

... Snaky was giving you the exact same instructions.
Instead you kept posting your memory pressure when nothing was lagging, which is misleading and useless.

Most others were making educated guesses provided on the very limited info you provided.
My post was very helpfull and sensibel in that way.
Maybe the local fortune teller would be a better advisor.

(Anyway:
If you just buy a 1tb samsung evo ssd and stick 16gigs of ram in, you stand a 99% chance of solving ur problem)

 

[simonsi]

Wow, ease up, man. Hopefully other people on this forum aren't as short-tempered as you are, otherwise I'll be seeking advice elsewhere.

...but he is right. Only you can know how much storage you need, especially if you give so little or no information on what you might use it for. I have a picture library of 470GB so obviously 250 isn't enough for me for instance - but then do I need it on an internal disk or could I be happy with it on an external USB drive etc etc.

Don't dive into buying and installing upgrades without understanding what the issue is otherwise you will waste money and likely still have the issue....

The guy suggesting an SSD suggests that on almost every post he makes, irrespective of the symptoms. His dad buys his computers (by his own admission), so he doesn't have any financial need to actually understand the issue. Now it seems he doesn't even understand normal HDD read/write rates, hence his advice is just flawed.