How do I improve overall performance

Grant Bennet-Adler, greetings; you said "(There is now a 1 Terabyte 2.5" drive, but it is too thick for a MacBook Internal.)" Not true any more;

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Samsung/HNM101MBB/

Ciao.

I am happy to stand corrected.

It looks like others The Other drive maker are is following suit as well. That site is listing a WD 1TB Scorpio Blue 5400 at US$169 as well and the US$129 1TB Samsung you referenced.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD10JPVT/

Western Digital has aquired Hitachi Global Storage Technology (included IBM, Quantum, Maxtor).

Seagate has aquired Samsung drive business.

Toshiba is still there, but they seem to have less than 10 percent of the market.

Delete everything that rarely use in toerh words the junk files, there are third party softwares that does the job for you but i prefer to do them on my own in which i can manually delete whatever i feel like i dont use.

additionally, if you have an old macbook then you can go ahead and increase your RAM.

and if you need all that 3d graphics designing or w.e then go ahead and buy a quad core macbooks because they are the best atm for G.Ds(graphics designing)

Thats all i know 🙂 hope that helped.

Delete everything that rarely use in toerh words the junk files, there are third party softwares that does the job for you but i prefer to do them on my own in which i can manually delete whatever i feel like i dont use.

That is very bad advice. First, the mythical "junk files" are not necessarily junk. See The myth of the dirty Mac. And many, many people have gotten stuck with systems that won't boot anymore after manually deleting stuff they felt like they didn't use.

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bessera wrote:

Is there a specific size hard drive for these laptops?

In the 2.5" formfactor, the biggest in the market holds 1TB@5400RPM. Next size and very popular is 750GB@7200RPM. Jury still out on whether the higher density compensates the slower spin and results in equal throughput. I didn't want to chance it, preferred speed over space in mine.

I recall an article in Slashdot recently, a maker whose name I just can't remember demoed a totally new way of magnetizing bits on platters, resulting in a density of 3-4TB before the year is out and a potential to go over 10TB in the medium term. All in 2.5". Oh, yeah, and over 40TB in the 3.5" formfactor. Will grant you the ability to lose the ENTIRE pron collection in a single drop! 😮😢 😀😀😀

Hi, Kappy, you are such a great Mac expert! You helped me fixed my Blu-ray burning problem before and during that time I learned a lot from you!

Now I am having performance problem. How do I get my computer back to its excellent performance as before?

Ever since I had 3TB SATA hard drive problem and OS X was installed on a 120GB PCI drive (I never saw PCI drive showed up in Utilities until then), after I struggled to get 3TB back to work in reinstalled OS X back on it, my computer runs a lot slower now. Is PCI drive the flash drive that speeds up running programs? How do I put it back to where it was before?

Also, when I tried to use Bootcamp to install Windows, it shows 3TB hard drive and 120GB PCI drive. It will not use 3TB hard drive and mentioned that it was a startup drive. All I could select was 120GB PCI drive but it was too small and I am afraid it should be used to speed up programs.

What was going on? What can I do now?

PLEASE HELP!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Best Regards,