SSD upgrade on MBP?

I ran my mbp with a 120GB SSD and put the old spindle drive into a caddy in the optical drive.
Nice to have the speed and the storage.
 
Hemps said:
I have a friend coming over from Australia in a couple months time, maybe it'll be cheaper to order from there?

http://www.macfixit.com.au/8-0gb-1-x-8-0gb-owc-pc12800-ddr3-1600mhz-so-dimm-204-pin-ram.html
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Not really. RAM in ZA is mostly, from what I have seen, pretty similar - unless the foreign store is running a good deal.

I bought these from Wootware at the beginning of last year.

In about 2/3 months, I plan on upgrading to these, and will then sell the former on MyBB, to get something back...
 
Yeah, been checking prices and they almost identical to ZA, was looking for Apple TV
 
I bought 16GB RAM for my MacBook Pro 2011 from Esquire. Worked out to just over R800. Unfortunately, prices have gone up since then.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
I ran my mbp with a 120GB SSD and put the old spindle drive into a caddy in the optical drive.
Nice to have the speed and the storage.
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I've got a 120gb SSD but I'd like to at least double the SSD component of my fusion drive. After reading numerous warnings regarding the sudden motion sensor I left the HDD in it's bay and put the SSD in the enclosure.
 
I bought 16GB RAM for my MacBook Pro 2011 from Esquire. Worked out to just over R800. Unfortunately, prices have gone up since then.
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do you have a link , can't find the 1600mhz ram on their website?
 
Yoh... Today has been a test of patience. Almost appears to be ok - but still having Permissions issues that are not being repaired, and worryingly - a grey progress bar on startup.

Have formatted the original HDD already, and successfully moved iTunes and iPhoto on to it, with all meta-data intact.

The Spotlight indexing has also finished - so seems to be running, but for the lengthy startup. [Google says the grey progress bar was first introduced in Leopard, and appears when OSX is trying to resolve a disk issue. All forums' advice (from back then) was that it usually precedes disk failure - which surely cannot be the case now?).

I now have my TM backups that were last made prior to the SSD installation, and made a 2nd clone of the original HDD onto an external.

What would you all do?

Start all over again, or wait it out for a bit and see if things improve?
 
Cassady said:
Yoh... Today has been a test of patience. Almost appears to be ok - but still having Permissions issues that are not being repaired, and worryingly - a grey progress bar on startup.

Have formatted the original HDD already, and successfully moved iTunes and iPhoto on to it, with all meta-data intact.

The Spotlight indexing has also finished - so seems to be running, but for the lengthy startup. [Google says the grey progress bar was first introduced in Leopard, and appears when OSX is trying to resolve a disk issue. All forums' advice (from back then) was that it usually precedes disk failure - which surely cannot be the case now?).

I now have my TM backups that were last made prior to the SSD installation, and made a 2nd clone of the original HDD onto an external.

What would you all do?

Start all over again, or wait it out for a bit and see if things improve?
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Quoting myself here... Following a tip over at Macrumors (physically selecting my SSD in System Preferences/Startup Disk), everything is absolutely flying... 45 seconds from power on until typing - which includes my having to type in the mother of all passwords, and the loading of 24 log-in applets in my Bartender menu. I'm quite frankly blown-away by the speed of things.

Despite my initial fun-and-games, after having sorted everything out - it's now running as stable as it always was, just lightning fast. I used a pricey caddy, and one must obviously factor in the costs of the SSD - but I would highly recommend this upgrade, for anyone still in doubt!
 
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