MacBook Pro - SSD upgrade

hoogie

hoogie

hoogie

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Hi,

So I have decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro with an SSD HDD, given the price of SSD drives I was planning on replacing my Optical drive with a SSD drive and keeping the HDD as additional storage.

I had some questions and was hoping the forum may be able to offer some advice.

To confirm my system is a 2011 13" MBP.

  1. I heard rumors that OSX doesn't run correctly on some SSD drives, is this true?
  2. One person recommended I go for a Samsung 830 series as these are what Apple use, is this true?
  3. Any particular drives recommended or any to avoid?
  4. I was thinking of maybe going for a 128GB SSD to stick the OS and system files on and then stick my photos, music and large data on the HDD. Will this work ok or is there any reason I should look at a 256GB SSD?
  5. I will need to get a internal drive caddy and SuperDrive enclosure so I can use it as external drive, any of these particularly recommended or will anything on eBay do?
  6. And finally will installing the drive myself void the warranty?

Thanks
 
I use a SSD and a hard drive caddy with a large storage drive in.

I recently got this MacBook Pro through and it does indeed come with a Samsung 830. Being my first foray into the SSD world it is VERY quick. Think it's like 300mb/s write and 450mb/s read.

I think the problem with buying and using one post sale is due to trim support on the hard drives. Someone may come along soon and explain that as i haven't a clue due to buying the computer with one.

I grabbed my caddy off eBay for £8 from a guy in bristol and can't recommend him enough. I use the SSD in the caddy and put the HDD in the normal place and use my SSD as a boot and application drive.

Installing the drive in the standard place won't invalidate your warranty but removing the superdrive and putting in a caddy will. But who's to know you'd had a caddy in there if you put the superdrive back in.
 
I use a 64gb* crucial m4, trim enabled (via an app), running lion with full master collection cs6, logic pro and some other programs and I'm only using half the space. hard drive is in a caddy where the SuperDrive once lived.

It's a 2008 mbp running sata, so boots in 22 secs. :D
 
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I have that macbook pro :D

Works fine with an SSD (I have a force 3 120gb), actually it works a lot better with the SSD.

Get which ever SSD you can afford, preferably as large as possible (256 is always better than 128 if its not a problem getting the extra space as its more fast space).

The Samsung is supposed to be the best value around at the moment, but the M4 has a strong fan base too. I would consider the Vertex 4's or an Intel 5 series but they are all in the similar best of category. Get one of those 4 in your price band and size and you'll be laughing.

You only need an internal caddy if you are taking out the super drive. Personally I would just swap the main drive with the ssd (both are the small 2.5" ones) and have an external drive + dvd drive still there, but that's just preference.

Hard drives are like the ram, they are user replaceable on this one :D

And as mentioned google osx + trim to get the trim enabler for non mac ssd's, take no time at all onces you have updated osx to the max.
 
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