2012 MacBook Pro upgrade advise please

basktm · 31 Aug 2019 at 15:44

One for you computer tech guys.

I have a 2.9g i7 MacBook Pro mid 2012 and looking to upgrade. (Serial C1MKW5CGDTY4)

So the questions are

1. Which ram is best, looking at the 16g(2x8) of the hyperX 1600mhz (is this the fastest it will take ? )

2. Slightly more complicated this one, SSD, which one ? Is there really much difference, looking at these

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Any better/worse ?

3. Single SSD and leave cd drive, duel SSD running parallel or duel SSD running raid 0
(I understand the loss and it’s fine, I will use the 1t sata as a constant back-up)

If I go duel running raid, will 1tb work or will I need 2tb as I understand SSD’s need empty space.

All about speed for Adobe LR/PS and Premier Pro

Cheers

basktm · 1 Sep 2019 at 22:55

Any help please

Feek · 2 Sep 2019 at 08:07

1) On a laptop this age, I don't think you'll really notice any difference between different types of memory.
2) Same as above really, any SSD will give you a massive improvement in performance.
3) I'd go with a single SSD because it's the easiest upgrade. Backup via Time Machine over your LAN and it'll just happen in the background without you needing to worry about it.

basktm · 2 Sep 2019 at 15:58

Feek said:
1) On a laptop this age, I don't think you'll really notice any difference between different types of memory.
2) Same as above really, any SSD will give you a massive improvement in performance.
3) I'd go with a single SSD because it's the easiest upgrade. Backup via Time Machine over your LAN and it'll just happen in the background without you needing to worry about it.

Perfect, thank you

Terminal_Boy · 2 Sep 2019 at 16:04

What Feek said.

RAM speed won’t make a difference, but if it has less than 16GB, put 16GB in it.

HDD>SSD makes a night and day difference on any older MBP.

basktm · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:21

Terminal_Boy said:
What Feek said.

RAM speed won’t make a difference, but if it has less than 16GB, put 16GB in it.

HDD>SSD makes a night and day difference on any older MBP.

Thanks, good to know about ram speed, yes maxing it at 16g.

Besty · 11 Sep 2019 at 13:00

basktm said:
Thanks, good to know about ram speed, yes maxing it at 16g.

The Crucial SSD's have known to play very nicely and thats what I used in my macbook.

basktm · 11 Sep 2019 at 13:04

Besty said:
The Crucial SSD's have known to play very nicely and thats what I used in my macbook.

Thanks

Colonel_Klinck · 11 Sep 2019 at 13:53

I removed the DVDR from my old 2011 MBP and installed a Crucial SSD. Made night and day difference in performance.

basktm · 11 Sep 2019 at 15:00

Colonel_Klinck said:
I removed the DVDR from my old 2011 MBP and installed a Crucial SSD. Made night and day difference in performance.

I’m still thinking of this, going with the simple hard drive for ssd option first but want to replace that with another as well

manic111 · 13 Sep 2019 at 10:47

I replaced the HDD with an SSD in my 2011 MBP and it's still going strong at 8 years old (think it's still rocking 4gb RAM as well and it's fast enough although a bump wouldn't go amiss!). Highly recommended upgrade.

Feek · 17 Oct 2019 at 16:25

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