Huge price difference between SSD from OWC and ifixit, do you know why?

Hi,

Macsales/OWC says their SSDs are "fine tuned" for Macs (for garbage collection, wear leveling, etc. claiming there is no need for TRIM) and charges a premium price, as you've found out. OCZ (Toshiba made) may work just as well on a Mac, but they are not well known for the purpose. They both have a 100% guarantee of compatibility. The OCZ has only a two year warranty, while the Macsales SSD has a five year warranty. As already mentioned, Crucial is also a good choice.

OWC makes their SSDs. And they have good customer service and warranties. So, OWC may be more expensive because of this. iFixit sells other manufacturer's SSDs.

I have had good luck with Crucial SSDs and they were/are a bit cheaper than OWC. You might check out their pricing. Personally, I try to stay with either OWC or Crucial for SSDs and RAM only because they are both compatible with Macs.

Why don't you compare like for like, currently you are comparing a bare drive with a complete kit containing an external enclosure, cable and screwdrivers which is (as you would expect) more expensive.

One of the major price differences between those linked products,

is the factor of an included enclosure for re-use of the OEM HDD

as an external backup or storage drive. The OWC kit usually has

some tools included. ~ And good advice, even if not buying there.

{For older PPC Mac use, OWC offers the Mercury Legacy Pro SSD;

so that is most likely to help the vintage slow models which shipped

with 4500 - or- 5400-RPM drives, that cannot shed heat build-up if

a faster 7200-RPM rotational drive were placed internally, instead.}

With a thunderbolt or usb3 enclosure, an SSD could be setup for use

in modern intel-mac, then later installed; or used as alternate boot HD.

Good luck & happy trails! 🙂

Something else you might want to shop for is a replacement hard drive cable, which seems to be something that tends to develop problems in the mid-2012 13" MBP resulting in extreme slowness. Both OWC and ifixit carries these, with the better price being OWC's.

Good luck!

You want an SSD that is supported in OS-X so that you can perform firmware upgrades and that is tested and supported in OS-X

Stay away form SSD's that are developed only for MS-Windows computers.

like the Samsung Evo, OCZ, etc....

SSD's that are supported in OS-X are:

OWC SSD

Crucial MX200

Crucial MX300

If you want a good budget SSD that is supported is OS-X then get the "Crucial MX300"

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-525GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B01IAGSD68/ref=sr_1 _1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1490668843&sr=1-1&ke…

The larger capacity the SSD it will endure longer.

So a larger capacity SSD will last twice as long as its smaller size equal.

For example a 500gb. SSD will last twice as long as a 250gb SSD.

An SSD should last well over 150tb writes or a 5 year warranty.

Your best value purchase is to buy a 500gb. SSD or larger.