Hi all,
Here follows my experience about a SSD-upgrade:
1: It is, more than I expected, an insane speed booster! I have a MBP late 2011, 15'', 2.0, dual graphics, which I earlier had maxed out on RAM to 16 gigs. That was good (going from 8), but the SSD upgrade has given me at least twice as much performance boost. It is so responsive now and nice to work with (on a daily basis, I have Fusion loaded with windows + some heavy mac programs like Lightroom and photoshop).
2: It was easy to replace the physical drive.
3: It was not that easy to install a fresh version of Maverics on the new drive. To a start, the MBP would not recocknize the drive. I found out that I had to:
- a: mount it in a usb-caddy.
- b: initialize it through disk manager.
- c: partitionize it with one partition (this final thing did the trick, don't know why).
Only then, Mac would allow the installation of the OS my MBP came with - after which, I could upgrade to Mav. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way to install Mav. on a blank drive. I might be wrong there, though.
4: Finally, I found out that I had to enable TRIM-support through a third-party app. (in order to keep the SSD nice and clean from large chunks of deleted files. Something that just has to be enabled once, and then you can forget all about it).
But then I also got a read and writing speed of blazingly 500 MB/s. To those of you considering: Try downloading the magic speed app from app store and see what you get now (I was one some 30/40 MB/s).
This is an upgrade that possibly will extent the life of your MBP two to three years.
Morten
Here follows my experience about a SSD-upgrade:
1: It is, more than I expected, an insane speed booster! I have a MBP late 2011, 15'', 2.0, dual graphics, which I earlier had maxed out on RAM to 16 gigs. That was good (going from 8), but the SSD upgrade has given me at least twice as much performance boost. It is so responsive now and nice to work with (on a daily basis, I have Fusion loaded with windows + some heavy mac programs like Lightroom and photoshop).
2: It was easy to replace the physical drive.
3: It was not that easy to install a fresh version of Maverics on the new drive. To a start, the MBP would not recocknize the drive. I found out that I had to:
- a: mount it in a usb-caddy.
- b: initialize it through disk manager.
- c: partitionize it with one partition (this final thing did the trick, don't know why).
Only then, Mac would allow the installation of the OS my MBP came with - after which, I could upgrade to Mav. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way to install Mav. on a blank drive. I might be wrong there, though.
4: Finally, I found out that I had to enable TRIM-support through a third-party app. (in order to keep the SSD nice and clean from large chunks of deleted files. Something that just has to be enabled once, and then you can forget all about it).
But then I also got a read and writing speed of blazingly 500 MB/s. To those of you considering: Try downloading the magic speed app from app store and see what you get now (I was one some 30/40 MB/s).
This is an upgrade that possibly will extent the life of your MBP two to three years.
Morten
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