Will this stuff fit?

[Enricop]

Hi everybody!

Could someone please confirm me that these pieces of hardware will be ok with my Macbook Pro 13' mid 2010 (Core 2 duo 2.66 cpu)?

The ssd is going to the cd drive and the RAM is 16GB because it's been confirmed that my version actually supports it but I don't actually know if this one suits.

My memory right now:

Thanks a lot!

 

[snaky69]

Yes.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Yes, wether it's wort spending that money on a 6 year old laptop is questionable though.

 

[glenthompson]

I would put the SSD in the main drive slot and the other drive in the optibay.

 

[DeltaMac]

There is one disadvantage for the hard drive in the optibay - the sudden motion sensor, which shuts down the hard drive in the event of a fall, does not function through the optical bay. Not a lot of risk there, but some might like to avoid it anyway, so preferred could be SSD in the optibay, spinning drive remains in the native drive slot.

 

[simonsi]

Yes, yes and yes.

I would put the SSD in the optical bay and only swap them around if the optical bay gives errors, problems or doesn't negotiate a sensible speed (think yours will be SATA2 on both). That way you get the SMS protection if possible.

 

[adam9c1]

I have this computer and installed SSD from OWC.

They are picky with ram. My first set was bad.

Big improvement from 4-8, 8-16 a lot less but I know I'm maxed out. I can run few vms on it.

As far as boot time it takes 20 seconds from pressing power to login screen. More ram - longer memory check at boot.

This machine now feels really snappy.