I had a service technician tell me I need to update my 2016 MAC from a mechanical HD to a solid state HD because I upgraded to Mojave? does this sound correct? The price was very unappealing!
SSD's are so much better, like if you are on a MacBook SSDs use less power and therefore generate less heat, will give you improved battery life, and makes your fans run less (also helping battery life). They are much more reliable and...of course, way faster. They are can be very inexpensive these days if you buy them yourself directly, but it depends on the model and if you can use a normal generic/Windows laptop-style SATA ssd drive versus a Mac-model-specific ssd stick.
However, unless your current hard disk drive is failing you don't need to update it, or unless your Mac is running to slow for your tastes you don't need to update it. However, I can understand a technician strongly advising that you should update it.
Here is what I suggest:
By doing these last two things you can see how much the hardware would cost, even order it yourself directly if you want to upgrade, and can see exactly how difficult it is and determine if you want to pay for someone else to do it for you. With a Time Machine backup it's easy to move your backup onto a fresh hard drive.
As a technician, I would say price + $75 would be a great deal, and price + $150 for labor would be a fair deal. Anything beyond that for such a simple operation I would find someone cheaper. And if you have access to a university or corporate IT department, or even a Windows technician you know and trust, they can easily follow the iFixit guide to do it themselves even if they don't know Macs.
SSD's are so much better, like if you are on a MacBook SSDs use less power and therefore generate less heat, will give you improved battery life, and makes your fans run less (also helping battery life). They are much more reliable and...of course, way faster. They are can be very inexpensive these days if you buy them yourself directly, but it depends on the model and if you can use a normal generic/Windows laptop-style SATA ssd drive versus a Mac-model-specific ssd stick.
However, unless your current hard disk drive is failing you don't need to update it, or unless your Mac is running to slow for your tastes you don't need to update it. However, I can understand a technician strongly advising that you should update it.
Here is what I suggest:
By doing these last two things you can see how much the hardware would cost, even order it yourself directly if you want to upgrade, and can see exactly how difficult it is and determine if you want to pay for someone else to do it for you. With a Time Machine backup it's easy to move your backup onto a fresh hard drive.
As a technician, I would say price + $75 would be a great deal, and price + $150 for labor would be a fair deal. Anything beyond that for such a simple operation I would find someone cheaper. And if you have access to a university or corporate IT department, or even a Windows technician you know and trust, they can easily follow the iFixit guide to do it themselves even if they don't know Macs.
If your hard drive is fine, mojave will work on it. An ssd works a lot faster but is not necessary to let mojave work.
You can use first aid disk utility to find out if your HD is still healthy
An SSD would be faster. It's possible to do it yourself to save lots of moola.
I had a service technician tell me I need to update my 2016 MAC from a mechanical HD to a solid state HD because I upgraded to Mojave? does this sound correct? The price was very unappealing!
