SSD drives rock - again!

[Marek Szulen]

Congrats!

Yep, it's easy and not very expensive anymore :)

I did something similiar few months ago, but I've removed the optical drive
(put it into the external caddy) and added SSD drive instead.
Yeah.. is't a rocket-like power now :)

Marek


2013/2/26 Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at upcmail.nl>

> All,
>
> Thanks to Joost's hard drive transplantation lesson in December, I was
> able to upgrade my music Macbook Pro of 3,5 years old with a new SSD 512 GB
> and 8 GB of RAM.
>
> "Easy peasy" :-)
>
> Really, this is a completely new computer!!! Everything starts up very
> fast, and finally there's enough RAM to do all the jobs I want it to do.
>
> I cannot mention this often enough: when you have an older Mac or PC that
> is getting slow, don't buy a new one, but do this:
>
> 1. Delete all the stuff you don't need from the original drive
> 2. Perhaps defragment
> 3. Clone to the new Drive (put it in an external USB 3.0 housing)
> 4. Swap dishes and add RAM.
> 5. Use the old drive in the external enclosure as a backup drive.
> 6. AWESOMENESS!!
>
> I've decided to not update any software on this machine, so it will stay
> as it is for the rest of it's life - same as I did with my 13 YO G4 Dual
> 450 GHz, which still works BTW. I've got all the stuff I need on it, and it
> works very nicely.
>
> Have a nice day everyone.
>
> I wish we were all together somewhere for a week, doing jam sessions,
> talking gear and drinking beer...
>
> Gert
>
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