nywhe.blogg.se - 2009 macbook pro ssd upgrade

However I figured that based on my usage (approximately 15-20GB read/writes per day), the SSD will still last at least 3-4 years. There is lot of debate about TLC vs MLC based SSD and how TLC SSDs have a shorter life span. I went with Samsung 840 Series SSD 250GB SSD available at Flipkart.

Choose an SSD that fits your needs (size, cost etc).

I will just document the steps that I followed for the upgrade process. There is already enough literature about SSD vs HDD and why you should or shouldn’t upgrade. Read and Write speed test for a Samsung 840 series SSD (250GB) Check the read/write speed of the drive in the screenshot below (remember on SATA II, the maximum transfer cannot exceed 300MB/s). Applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, Eclipse open in less than 3 seconds. Booting time has reduced from 120+ seconds to under 30 seconds. It has nitro boosted for a 5 year old laptop (which still runs on SATA II). And to say that the laptop performance has increased will be an understatement. So it got solved in the end, but it wasn’t quite the blissful experience I expected.Recently I went through the process of replacing the hard disk drive (HDD) with a Solid State Drive (SSD) in my laptop (MacBook Pro 2009). Once that was done I dragged my apps and data from the old drive across to the new drive. So finally I bit the bullet and re-installed Snow Leopard (the most recent media I had), upgraded to Lion, then Mountain Lion through the App Store. I could always replace the old drive, but I was starting to think I might have wasted my money.

That would have been fine for a Time Machine backup, since the old drive was not completely full, but for an image restore it’s a big no-no. That would have been fine, except the new hard drive was fractionally smaller than the old one. I connected my old hard drive using a USB cable, booted from the CD and used the Disk Utility to restore the old hard drive to the new SSD. It turns out my Time Machine backups weren’t as complete as I thought. I use Time Machine for backups, so I slapped in the new hard drive, booted from the CD and expected to just restore from Time Machine. The transfer of the data proved a little more tricky than I expected though… The actual hard drive replacement is pretty simple.

It arrived yesterday, so during last nights insomnia, I decided to fit the hard drive, rather than stare at the ceiling. Despite this, I was bored the other night and decided to buy an SSD to replace the internal hard drive. I do demos with a couple of Linux VMs running Oracle and it works OK. A few years ago I upgraded from 4G to 8G RAM, so I’m not stranger to taking the back off it.Įven though it’s quite old by computer geek standards, I really don’t have any performance problems. Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. I’ve had my 13″ MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable.