Good news first: most older Macs and even some current Macs can be easily user-upgraded to include SSDs. With limited expertise and only three tools, I was able to swap out my 2011 iMac’s old hard drive for an SSD in roughly 30 minutes.
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SSD FOR MACBOOK PRO LATE 2011 MAC
Which Mac Models Can Be Internally Upgraded? Not all SSDs are equivalent in reliability and performance, but ones from top-tier chip companies are pretty incredible.
SSD FOR MACBOOK PRO LATE 2011 SERIES
Running cooler, quieter, and with superior energy efficiency than traditional hard drives, SSDs have fewer failures, and reputable manufacturers tend to warranty them for longer than their predecessors.įor instance, Samsung’s consumer drives generally have 5-year warranties, and if you’re willing to pay more, its PRO series drives have 10-year warranties, eclipsing all but the most expensive enterprise-class desktop hard disks. Nine years later, dramatically faster and smaller SSDs with the same capacities can be had for less than a tenth of those prices, so every current Mac either has an SSD by default or as an option. The January 2008-vintage original MacBook Air was the first Mac with the option of a 64GB SSD (for a $1,300 premium over the laptop’s base price), and 1TB SSDs were going for roughly $4,000 - Apple didn’t even try to sell 1TB SSDs at that point. A Mac that once took over a minute to boot can now start working in seconds Macs built with SSDs can awaken from sleep instantly.ĭespite superior performance, high prices led Apple to slowly stagger solid state drive adoption across individual Mac product lines. Even without changing a Mac’s CPU, GPU, or RAM, replacing the hard drive with an internal SSD instantly leads to much faster macOS performance, app loading, restarting, and file accessing. So this is a perfect time to revisit the topic of SSD upgrades if you held out before, now’s the time to jump in!įor nearly a decade, SSDs have been acknowledged as the “future” of Mac storage. With this week’s release of macOS High Sierra, Apple has officially made SSDs its preferred Mac storage solution, introducing the new APFS standard to further optimize SSD performance over Fusion and traditional hard drives. Once unthinkably huge 2TB and 4TB SSDs are now commonly available, too, albeit at eye-watering prices. Replacing your old 500GB hard drive with a same-sized SSD from a reputable manufacturer costs only $150, while 1TB drives are under $330, each $100 less than only a couple of years ago. Today, high-capacity SSDs are more affordable than ever. All for much less than the price of a new Mac. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB or 1TB hard drive with a same-sized SSD required at least $250 back then, but the benefits were tremendous: even an aging machine became markedly (5x) faster, silent, and - unexpectedly - more fun to use. Id love to get a 240GB SSD for $120.When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Thunderbolt OR dual internal drives to keep at the drive speed (max transfer/read/write rates) is the better solution. using it for the original HDD.still not going to run apps off it, music and backup mainly. Keep in mind a USB drive caddy is at 420Mbits/sec (52.5MB/s) transfer speed when you throw a 3Gb/s or 6GB/s drive in there capable of pushing 375-750MB/s you limiting the drive to the USB 2.0 speed.
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Thunderbolt enclosures are expensive (right now), you have to lug it around when a data doubler will keep your storage and speed in one unit.
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Their benchmark speeds are great (real world probabbly no difference)
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I was like WOW ~$250 for an SSD and data doubler (256GB), WOW thats Expensive, but when you add the $59 + a 179 OCZ or 199 crucial or $214 Samsung, then your almost at the same price if not more. But by OP's original message, it was simply "What do you all have in your Macbooks for an SSD" ie - Cheap or least money possible, or you have a "budget" of $300 to spend. Budget meaning.the amount you have to spend.