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May 24, 2015 12:48 PM in response to jones-jasonby FoxFifth,Yosemite works very well with an SSD. That's the only option on my MacBook Air. The following is a good source of both SSDs and information: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC
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May 24, 2015 1:02 PM in response to FoxFifthby jones-jason,Hi
Thanks, but i need to know If there will be any problems ?
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May 24, 2015 3:14 PM in response to jones-jasonby kyte,There should be no problems. I recently bought a second hand Macbook (not Pro) 2010 (White) and have upgraded both RAM and HD... I chose a Crucial MX200 250GB for mine, and its made a massive difference. I am not using TRIM which I understand may cause issues later. I'm about to ask about that in a separate thread.
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May 24, 2015 3:17 PM in response to jones-jasonby Mike Sombrio,Apple has blocked the use ot TRIM with third party SSD's and Yosemite. You can get a utility here https://www.cindori.org/ that will allow you to either turn on Trim or to manually TRIM your SSD. OWC claims that their SSD doesn't need TRIM due to their technology called over provisioning. I have an OWC SSD in my 2009 iMac running Yosemite and while I used the utility to turn on TRIM I've now got it off and plan to TRIM manually. If you enable TRIM and either update your OS or reset your NVRAM your Mac won't start. If that happens you have to start into your recovery partition, enter Terminal and manually disable TRIM.
It sounds like a big hassle but if you remember to turn TRIM off before updating or resetting the NVRAM or decide to manually TRIM it really isn't that big of a deal. OR....you can believe OWC and run an SSD without TRIM at all.
Don't let it stop you. Of all the computer upgrades I've ever done, and I've done plenty, putting SSD's into older computers is the single best upgrade without exception.