Is it possible to upgrade the HDD to an SSD to increase the the overall performance?
186043
Yes, this is possible: you can easily upgrade the HDD and increase the RAM in this computer
1732013
I have not done it yet myself, but upgrading RAM and hard drives are both possible on this machine. A good place to see what is compatible is www.crucial.com.
1126786
Absolutely. Use Carbon Copy Cloner and that will work great. However, I would just take the old HDD and stick it in a drawer as a backup drive, get another SSD and use it as external super fast storage.
212326
I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
1855328
Physically, yes. However, having said that, remember that this drive is SATA III whereas your MBP is SATA II (based on Apple specs). Hence, you won't get optimal performance, but your performance will be better than the current HD by leaps and bounds. Lastly, remember that once you have the drive installed you should enable TRIM support (I used Trim Enabler) to optimize the SSD performance. It makes quite a difference. I hope this helps.
2053252
I wouldnt! I think it is used for cache and is software and hardware based. You would probably waste it. You need to look further but I though about buying a 256GB SSD for $120 on sale and replace the 500GB spinning drive with the new SSD and let it still cache if it likes I guess??? not sure lol.
1802638
Install a Solid State Drive for programs and a normal "spinning" HD for storage, this will make a fantastic machine.
1247908
You should be able to. I don't know if you would be able to boot from it though, which is the purpose of the ssd. That seems to be a pretty old machine. go to reddit.com/r/buildapc they can give you better tech info, and help you build a much better pc cheaply. Amazon also sells a wide variety of good processors, and motherboards, that can help with this.
881462
I've not tried it but I would think you could. You lose all the speed though because it would reduce the SSD speed to FireWire 800 speed
419584
Pretty much out of the question. You could put a larger SSD in place of the original. The USB 3 port gives excellent performance with a compatible external drive.
707941
I just opened mine to put 2x4GB SODIMMs into it ... nope. It is NOT user-upgradeable. Memory chips are soldered on. SSD is mSATA so in the future you could presumably upgrade it to 256GB, but the memory is not upgradeable in this at all. Live and learn.
531484
There are many unknown factors regarding your question ... but it's a pretty safe bet that the answer is (NO). example : installing 2 SSD's in a striped RAID vs ANY HDD on the market would be a much better way to spend your $ to increase performance.95+ % of PC owners would never be able to tell the difference in 1333 and 3000mghz in a PC for personal use.Hope this helps...
634579
Yes, provided the SSD has as much space as you need. I moved the data folders (documents, pictures, music, etc.) onto a standard hard drive, then cloned just the operating system and most-used programs onto the SSD. That gives fast boot and response from the SSD, but cheaper bulk storage on the standard hard drive.
1291588
Any SSD's today replace/upgrade all of the SATA 2.5" hdd = 5200 to 7200rpm down to stone ages 2002 or even earlier.
1077394
I can not answer that question because I did not install the SSD. I brought it to the greek squad at Bestbuy. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
276084
im not the owner of this but if you want an upgrade like that it would be some kind of 400$ or 450$ more solid state drives (ssd) are really expensive
574123
Yes you can. But spend the extra and get SSD drive. It is soooo much faster and does not have a problem with being bounced around.