Are there any aftermarket SSD upgrades w/size or speed increases or both from OWC or anyone or has anyone even announced they plan to do so? Thanks
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I don't understand why you would upgrade the SSD. It is blazing fast as is. If you need storage, using cloud services has worked for me. I read that upgrading these machines on your own is generally not recommended.
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Hello Fee,To answer your question, there is no increase in data performed by OWC or Solid State Drive. In most cases, when purchasing from Amazon, we are required to reset the electronic devices to their factory settings. This is the case with the Macbook. The good news is that if you decide to purchase, those upgrades (in addition to Apple software upgrades) can be done by the user. We hope this answered your questions and if you have any more please feel free to correspond with us via email. Thanks for your interest!
1969633
I bought a.256 SSD for my op system and start up.programs and used my HDD with another to.store music pics.etc....works.really well
190800
hi. i was wondering how upgrading the hard drive went for you cuz i was thinking of doing it. also, did u buy ur hard drive off of ifixit's website if you did and does making imporvement dissuade any warranty on the laptop? thanx.
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I think ASUS just added some changes to their 900....The new 16gb SSD is also showning up on Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220362), ExcaliberPC (http://www.excaliberpc.com/587715/asus-eee-pc-900-16g.html). It's interesting to see that newegg has it in stock while amazon and excaliberpc have it on pre-order.So I think the 16GB is correct. As for Amazon listing this 900 with the new Atom chipset, it may be incorrect as other sites only list it as "Intel Processor".
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.
2160644
I'm pretty sure that you can replace the 128GB SSD with a larger MSATA SSD. I have not done it myself, but I opened up the laptop and saw the MSATA that's in there. I didn't see any place to put an additional internal drive.
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The 2006 MacPro doesn't support the full speed of an SSD, because of its PCI bus spec. Those Macs were PCI 1.0 I think. So you'd be looking at SATA I speeds at best. If you were using a very fast HDD, an upgrade to a SSD might not give you that big a boost. It certainly won't give you the max speed specs listed for the SSD.
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If you order it, check the model that arrives. Mine didn't have the SSD. I called Amazon and sent it back for one with the SSD. Waiting on the replacement... EDIT - its there, just not user accessible, see below:
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You can buy this with SSD already included. This brand has dozens of models in this size of every possible option and I have one like this with SSD.
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Hey, more RAM, better performance; faster CPU, better performance.The SSD is the best boot speed upgrade. Incredible!Put your operating system on it for a new experience.No moving parts. Maybe approaches light speed. <Grins>Best wishes.
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Yes those are all pretty universal these days so by all means feel free to upgrade to SSD :) Enjoy :)
1499450
Yesthose are all pretty universal these days so by all means feel free to upgrade to SSD :)Enjoy :)
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I got this items some weeks ago, I can confirm is a 15.6". I also can confirm that the SSD are made by Sandisk, not ADATA, that was something unexpected :(
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I'm in the process of doing this exact upgrade, except up to 480 GB. Using Macrium Reflect Free, I was able to clone the drive, swap it into the Series 9, and the computer is acting perfectly. It worked. The problem is that even though it's a 480 GB drive, windows just shows it as the same size as old one, with 300GB of "unallocated" space that I can't figure out how to make accessible. If you figure it out, please let me know how you did it! My thread is one of the other Q & A threads on this same product.
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actually to be honest the v4 is the newer one xD ive been following SSDs before the m4 and the kinda retarded price comes supposedly from the technology that was developed especially for older computers. so the m4 doesnt have many features the v4 does and for some reason they thought that lowering the speed will make it more stable in older computers
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Performance increase with the RAM upgrade but, installing an SSD really did the trick. Well worth the small extra investment.
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Yes, the install offers an upgrade or to do a full (clean) install which is what I did. If you're putting an SSD and hard drive in to your machine, don't connect the hard drive until after the install if you want the OS to be on the SSD. The installer can get confused if you have more than one drive available.