MacBook/SSD

[The smudger]

Thinking of fitting an SSD to my Early 2009 MacBook 13".

Anyone done it? how easy is it, and more importantly, what would the main benefit be?

The MacBook has been great, its just sometimes a little slow. I have added RAM up to the limit.

Thanks in advance,

Smudge.

 

[MikeO]

I did it - mainly to remove a moving part from the computer and thereby probably extend its life. Thread here...

 

[ianf]

I did it to a 2009 Mac mini. It boots in a few seconds, loads in programs in one bounce typically. Also if you start too much stuff up the paging that goes on is a lot more tolerable. Any random file access is essentially nearly as fast as sequential (no seek penalty).

Still expensive for the storing big music/film collections so think about putting the old drive in an enclosure to store all that. They are sequentially accessed and don't really get an advantage. See www.macsales.com for an idea of drives/enclosures, thebookyard.co.uk sells their stuff here too.

You may need trim enabler, as osx only knows to do this for oem flash drives.

 

[Bendy toy]

Will one of these work in a 2013 MacBook Pro? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E391OX6/ref=pe_1226541_52188311_em_1p_0_ti#productDetails

Can I leave the old hard disc inside as a secondary drive? Ive not had the computer back off to check for space.

Sorry, but what is trim enabler?

 

[mr_magicfingers]

Replaced the hard drive with an ssd and the dvd drive with a 1Tb hard drive, benefits of speed booting and massive storage. Built my own Fusion drive so that they're just one big fast drive.

Put an SSD in my mac mini server. ifixit.com will show you how, step by step.

 

[thauma]

fitted an SSD and a memory upgrade to my 2010 iMac........ boots faster, runs faster, wish I'd done it a while ago.

 

[Pukmeister]

Just fitted a Crucial MX100 512GB SSD to my early 2011 Macbook Pro today, took 3 hours to clone the old HDD using free software. Also downloaded a free trim enabler program. I had already upped the RAM to 16GB without much speed increase. I didn't bother cloning the repair partition as I can boot from the original HDD via a USB cable if I need to.

It now runs much quicker, battery life seems improved and the machine is a LOT cooler.

I got the SSD from Novatech for a shade under £160.

 

[The smudger]

Thanks all...

 

[Pukmeister]

Forgot to say, I also got a 1TB 7200rpm external HDD with Thunderbolt and USB3 to complement the internal SSD which is also very quick. No worries about overfilling the SSD.