2012 MacBook Pro upgrade advise please

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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

 

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Any help please

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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

Thanks

 

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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