SSD for MacBook Pro

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My work MacBook Pro (non-retina) mid 2012 is so slow and its less than 6 months old :(

I want to keep the current disk for storage and add an SSD for the OS to speed things up. Im hoping I can just buy a disk and then clone it.
 
I would. Best upgrade I ever did was to get an SSD. I bought a Crucial M4, 250Gb and cloned my existing drive with Carbon Copy Cloner then put the SSD in and whacked the OS on. I bought a housing to use the DVD drive externally and it's all good and I have 750Gb of space. It boots in less than 15 seconds and even large programs like photoshop and Final Cut load in a couple of seconds.

I'd never done anything like this before and it was pretty painless. The only trouble I had was getting the superdrive out but I booked it in at the genius bar and one of the guys whipped it out (the screw) in no time. I was concerned it may cause an issue as I was taking parts out but the guy was fine about it.

For the record my MBP is 13inch early 2011.
 
I bought a Corsair Force 3 240GB SSD back in November for my 2009 MacBook Pro 13" - best upgrade I've ever done. The thing flies now. Picked the Force 3 due to it looking after itself in terms of TRIM without the OS needing to know - perfect for a Mac upgrade. Saves messing around with the enabler software.
 
The advice used to be that Sandforce drives were best avoided on the Macs. Samsung or Crucial would be a better bet.

Crucial M4 here. Unlocked all the hidden performance in mine!
 
I just put a spare Crucial M4 I had into an old MBP (gave the drive a secure erase and firmware update on PC). Clean install of Mountain Lion, and it's running fine.

What's the current verdict on enabling TRIM or just relying on built in Garbage Collection?
 
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I was unsure, mainly as it's an unofficial hack.

I have installed TRIM enabler, not encountered any problems in the 6 months it's been installed.
 
Westyfield2 said:
I just put a spare Crucial M4 I had into an old MBP (gave the drive a secure erase and firmware update on PC). Clean install of Mountain Lion, and it's running fine.

What's the current verdict on enabling TRIM or just relying on built in Garbage Collection?
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General verdict is that there isn't anything wrong with enabling it but it isn't compulsory. I didn't with my machine and it was absolutely fine.
 
I enabled it for a piece of mind. It's just something that runs in the background and its free so I don't see the harm in it.
 
MagicBoy said:
The advice used to be that Sandforce drives were best avoided on the Macs. Samsung or Crucial would be a better bet.

Crucial M4 here. Unlocked all the hidden performance in mine!
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I totally go with "caged". I too use sandforce based controller in my MBP and it really flies. It just is a wrong perception most of the people have about sandforce & MAC. I have used both corsair force 3 & also OWC Mecury 6G which jells well with my MBP. really good choice. works best!! :*
 
I installed my SSD today and I had to enable TRIM. The Mac booting time is still horrific. Once i log in i definitely notice a speed increase. Is Mac OS just generally this slow? I have added some test from Xbench. Do these look normal?


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