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SSD in 5 year old MBP

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techmonkey

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Anyone have an old MBP that they installed a SSD in? Is it worth spending the money on an SSD? I am thinking about getting a 128GB SSD for my main drive and installing a 500GB HDD in the SuperDrive bay (with the kits you find on Ebay)
 
techmonkey said:
Anyone have an old MBP that they installed a SSD in? Is it worth spending the money on an SSD? I am thinking about getting a 128GB SSD for my main drive and installing a 500GB HDD in the SuperDrive bay (with the kits you find on Ebay)
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I replaced the HD in a 2008 early MBP. Thinking about doing it for the 1st gen 2006 MBP.

Unless you absolutely need the storage, just go with the 256 and not worry about installing one of those kits. I actually considered going that route but the kits on OWC only start at late 2008.

And yes, totally worth it. You're not gonna get much better performance doing video editing or photoshop but for regular every day use and light excel, it's awesome. You'd think it was a brand new computer.
 
techmonkey said:
Anyone have an old MBP that they installed a SSD in? Is it worth spending the money on an SSD? I am thinking about getting a 128GB SSD for my main drive and installing a 500GB HDD in the SuperDrive bay (with the kits you find on Ebay)
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Installing a SSD will improve performance on any Mac, regardless of age.
 
don't see why not. it should add a degree of snappiness. a bit more ram would help as well depending on what you do.

i'm still running a 2008 macbook non-pro with upgraded 8gb of ram for work (photoshop/illustrator/etc etc) and its running relatively fine considering the really dated internals. i would imagine an ssd drive would speed it up even more.
 
Putting a Crucial M4 SSD in my MBP was the best thing I have ever done. Max it to 6GB of RAM and throw an SSD in there and you'll have a perfectly capable machine.

I absolutely love mine. Zero interest in anything new.
 
I updated my sig, I added an extra 2GB a couple of months ago. I may just go with the 128GB SSD, found a deal for $89. I sort of like being limited on space because it forces me to cleanup my drive of unnecessary files, especially large video files. The hassle will be having to reinstall Lion and Win7 on the new drive...
 
techmonkey said:
Anyone have an old MBP that they installed a SSD in? Is it worth spending the money on an SSD? I am thinking about getting a 128GB SSD for my main drive and installing a 500GB HDD in the SuperDrive bay (with the kits you find on Ebay)
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GO for it. And when its time to change computers, the SSD can stay for the next.
 
I am just getting around to installing the drive. I bought all the tools I need and started looking for some guides. I read a couple of places about height issues on the drive. The drive I have is 7mm height. Will this fit fine in my MBP?
 
techmonkey said:
Anyone have an old MBP that they installed a SSD in? Is it worth spending the money on an SSD? I am thinking about getting a 128GB SSD for my main drive and installing a 500GB HDD in the SuperDrive bay (with the kits you find on Ebay)
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very well worth it! When I installed my SSD into my 2008 Mac Pro it was like night and day!
 
Why not? The older the computer, the bigger perceived benefit from the SSD. Putting as SSD in my 2008 macbook made a bigger difference than when i put one in my 2011 MBP.
 
So my install went pretty well. Performance has improved but Ive read that AHCI is not enabled in Win7 on a Mac. Anyone here try the "hack" to get this enabled on a mid-2007 MBP?
 
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