What to upgrade?

[AlexrDePasquale]

I have a mid 2010 white unibody macbook 7,1 with a 2.4ghz, intel core 2 duo 4 gigs of RAM, and a 256gig 5400 rpm stock hdd. I am defiantly wanting to upgrade the ram to 8gig, and I want to upgrade my hdd to a ssd. First, to be clear this mac is able to use a 6g ssd correct? Next, would it be better to either: 1. Get a 256gig OWC ssd electra 6g and replace the old hard drive with that one. 2. Get a 256 gig OWC ssd electra 6g and put it into the opticlal drive to use the two drive in a Stirped RAID configuration. 3. Get two 120gig OWC ssd's and replace the existing hdd and the optical drive with them and put those into a RAID configuration. Third would be my most expenisve option clocking in at about 385 dollars including the RAM which I guess is the most I would spend. Any other seggestions or ssd companies/ideas are welcome. I mainly would like to know what would make my macbook the best configuration for the money that I am going to be spending with at least 256gig of total internal ssd memory and 8gigs of RAM.

Links to drives/RAM

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/YSSD6E240/ or a 120gig with same configuration

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDMBS6E120/ or a 120gig with same configuration

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/8566DDR3S8GP/

 

[TacticalDesire]

Assuming you don't need the optical drive, I would go with option 2. Use the HDD as a data/media drive and use the SSD as the OS/apps drive. That, coupled with the 8gb of ram and you'll have a solid machine for many more years.

 

[AlexrDePasquale]

I have thought about that, but the only problem with that is if I were to have two drives I would rather put them into a RAID configuration so as to not need to switch between the drives. Not sure if putting the SSD and HDD in a RAID configuration would slow down the SSD below its true potential. If I were to take out the current HDD and put in a single SSD I would use the OWC data enclosure kit to use the HDD as an external hard drive.

 

[robvas]

You can't make a RAID from one SSD and one HDD

 

[AlexrDePasquale]

That's something I didn't know. Now the question is one SSD or 2 in RAID? And can the 7,1 MB run full Sata 3 6g/s?

 

[Maverick1337]

If you're looking to buy a SSD, I have a SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD that is 3 days old for $170 shipped. It's arguably one of the fastest and most reliable SSDs on the market. These retail for over $220 not including tax or shipping. Let me know if you're interested.

 

[AlexrDePasquale]

If you're looking to buy a SSD, I have a SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD that is 3 days old for $170 shipped. It's arguably one of the fastest and most reliable SSDs on the market. These retail for over $220 not including tax or shipping. Let me know if you're interested.

I would take you up on that, but I'm mainly looking to be able to still use my current hdd as an external drive. That's why I want to go with the OWC DIY kit with a drive to external drive enclosure.

 

[Maverick1337]

If you're looking to buy a SSD, I have a SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD that is 3 days old for $170 shipped. It's arguably one of the fastest and most reliable SSDs on the market. These retail for over $220 not including tax or shipping. Let me know if you're interested.

I would take you up on that, but I'm mainly looking to be able to still use my current hdd as an external drive. That's why I want to go with the OWC DIY kit with a drive to external drive enclosure.

External enclosures are very cheap around $20. It is very common for people to upgrade their hard drive and throw on an external enclosure for their replaced drive easily. Let me know if you want to work something out for my SSD and thanks for the response. Good luck with your future upgrades!