Hi hi Sifu Sifu sekalian

I intend to change my normal 500gb stock HDD to a SSD samsung 500GB. May i know which model is the best/compatible for this particular upgrades.

I notice Samsung evo 970 series the shape of it is so much different compare to eve 860. Im afraid it can't fit inside the hard disk compartment.

I guess eve 970 is for desktop (Sorry for noob question and assumption)

Thank you in advance

buy ssd 2.5 size lah..

dont buy m2 storage as macbook pro non retina does not have that on the mobo..

im using sandisk ultra II 480gb... its been almost 3 years edi

meaning to say look for any SSD which is 2.5 only lo. Another thing is do you think changing the RAM would help a lot ?

If change what is the best configuration ?

Stock is : 2 x 2 GB

Is it ok : 1 x 2GB , 1 x 8GB ?

MBP does not have the the capability of dual-channel.. in another words, having any size of ram will do.. having same size of ram does not give u any advantage in that sense... but be careful of the speed instead... you need to ensure that the speed is the same to get full advantage out of it...

Got it .. thank you ya

Pardon, but most modern Mac (that include MacBook Pro) are capable on dual channel memory. So long you install a match pair the dual channel will be in use. This is also why those model with soldered on-board memory, you will see two DIMM on system report instead of a single large DIMM.

Here's the spec sheet from intel, you will see "Max memory channel: 2"
https://ark.intel.com/products/67355/Intel-...o-3_10-GHz-rPGA

While Apple did not mention dual channel but they do advice owner to fill both slots with equal memory. https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201165

Here's some healthy discussion on Mac & dual channel memory. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1...al-channel-mode

this is new for me.. thanks mate

Which model of ssd you end up using now? This is non retina macbook pro right?

Yeah non retina

My 2010 is using Samsung EVO SSD and 8GB Kingston DDR3. Performance much better than stock despite age.

Now speaker kaput. Need to find a replacement soon.

yeah .. just bought the ssd .. going to buy the ram soon too...

Interesting topic, I would also like to change my hard drive, but I do not know what is needed.

How much is the SSD and ram cost?

Bought both used for RM 400. New maybe around RM 600-700.

Thanks for the info. Am sourcing 1 for myself as well

i bought new . rm 665. replaced. Super satisfied with the speed

gonna hunt for ram now

Samsung Evo 250GB?

evo 860 500GB. Just googled the price again .. lazada got discount rm 525 only. lucky u

Wah, ok...Thanks for the info. Will look for it later at home

Mine is with Kingston Hyper X 240GB (upgraded 4 years already) and with 16GB RAMs