Hi there,

I have a mid 2012 Macbook Pro 13" model and it's starting to become very very slow.

I've been advised to upgrade my SSD and maybe my RAM to at least 8GB from the current 4GB.

My question is if you guys have a place you can recommend that can do this well and for reasonable price? In Klang Valley area.

Thanks!

with wei

I'm planning to upgrade my old MBP to SSD and ram as well.

So confirm after these 2 upgrades, Sierra will work fine and smooth on it ?

In general it should.
But that still depends what spec is the MacBook Pro & what kind of task you perform on it. Other hardwares (CPU, GPU, bus speed, etc) might be still bottlenecking the performance.

Basically Safari, Notes, Calendar MSoffice and itunes backup Iphone only.

Yeah, you'll definitely enjoy the boost after upgrade.

RAID 0 Mac .
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Poison you abit
But always remember Raid 0 consequences . Always back up on Time Machine .

Definitely you will enjoy the increasing of performance with those task

I would say do the SSD first and the RAM later if you mind spending too much.

SSD on 4GB of memory might even give you the speed boost you already need and the 8GB might be negligible.

I've done a couple of upgrades on the old plastic macbooks (SATA2) and the owners were quite happy with it even they have limited amount of memory available.

i wanna upgrade my macbook pro 2007 to ssd. may i know what are the procedures?

previously my SSD was install with win7.

do i need to format 1st? or i can format the SSD via disk utility at the bootup page ?

guide me plz

U can format via disk utility later.

Make boot USB disk with the Mac OS ISO.
Boot from USB
Then can format your SSD.

ok note..

now searching for mathod to convert my snow leopard DVD to bootable USB

RAID 0 is the way to go to achieve +-1gbps r/w

Use diskmaker X. It's free. 😀

too bad its no more compatible with 10.6 and below

I just installed 10.11 on a 2008 MacBook Pro.
runs great because of the Transcend SSD

What do you think of upgrading your SSD? Worth to buy? $650



Link website

This post has been edited by syirbiznatch: Dec 1 2016, 09:37 AM

well, upgrading the internal SSD for rmbp is not worth it.

I m using Samsung 850 Evo SSD as an external drive via USB 3.0.

The average read/write speed is about 450-500mb/s, so it's good for me.

May I ask which model Transcend SSD are you using? I am thinking of upgrading to a SSD for my old Macbook Pro 2008 version.

@Mavik https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-631

Great thanks, do you set it to RAID 0 as well?

@Mavik nope, its a replacement for the HD. Original HD is too old & slow

What enclosure do you use to get that speed?

https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-617