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Q: Choosing the right internal Hard storage for my Macbook Pro

Hi,

I have  amac book pro with this spec:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,1

  Processor Name: Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 4

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 6 MB

  Memory: 8 GB

  Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B0D

  SMC Version (system): 2.1f175

  Serial Number (system): C0**********V35

  Hardware UUID: A2089733-79E3-5628-A2B7-252143B9745B

 

Question is ? may I change the it's Hard drive with SSD one ?

 

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Posted on May 24, 2016 4:46 PM

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,Helpful

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscada
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    May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscada

    a replacement SSD for that model would still be a 2.5-in form factor drive.

     

    The internal Bus is SATA-II, so do not pay extra for a SATA-III drive (but a SATA-III will downshift and work fine).

     

    Build your new MacOS on the drive in an external enclosure or adapter, and make sure it is all working, so that you are not doing too much at once and cannot debug what the issues might be once you begin "surgery" to install the drive..

  • by OGELTHORPE,Helpful

    OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscada
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    May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscada

    Adding to Grant Bennet-Alder's good advice, based on reputation and personal experience, I recommend SSDs from OWC and Crucial.

     

    Ciao.

  • by Hamidscada,

    Hamidscada Hamidscada May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

    Tks for your answer , I doubt between

    ADATA SP900 M.2 2280 512GB Solid Sate Drive (SSD) (ASP900NS38-512GM-C)

    and

    DATA SP900 512GB 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive (SSD) (ASP900S3-512GM-C)

     

    in your opinion  know which one is compatible with internal bus and Controller ?

    How about the specs, for example my macbook pro support 6Gb/s ?

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder May 24, 2016 6:42 PM in response to Hamidscada
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    May 24, 2016 6:42 PM in response to Hamidscada

    MacBook pro main drive bay supports 3Gb/sec (SATA-II) [theoretically 375 Mega Bytes/sec] and is compatible with 6Gb/sec (SATA-III) but will transfer at the slower speed.

     

    That speed is comparable to a lot of SSD maximum speeds, but may occasionally be slightly slowed by it.

     

    An SSD (any SSD) is so much faster than the rotating drive you took out, you will not know why you did not make this swap long ago.

     

    If you have an SSD drive, you generally need to enable TRIM. with 10.10.4 and later, you can use the Terminal command:

     

    sudo trimforce enable

     

    .