Hardware General Mac Upgrade Discussion, Ram, HHD, OS/updates, Cable, Driver etc
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 Aug 28 2009, 02:07 AM
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QUOTE(cRazYee @ Aug 25 2009, 11:35 PM) 2.5" got 1TB d? yes some time back WD released the 2.5" 1TB alreadyget 500Gb will do, rest of the data go for external the more data you have, the longer times it take to load  |
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Sep 9 2009, 04:23 AM
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QUOTE(nimrod323 @ Sep 8 2009, 10:43 PM) hint hint micron! btw, i've gotta thank you for the link...got myself a pair of Crucial rams for my 13" MBP. 4GB of RAM definitely made things smoother now since the stuff i run hogs memory quite a bit; parallels with winxp, aperture, adobe photoshop, premiere pro etc. First time i put it in, it beeped, restarted and repeated. Won't display anything. Put back the original apple (which had hynix chips), still works fine. Put in the Crucial sticks again and it worked. Odd, but I've been using it for almost 2 weeks, no problems. This post has been edited by MetalZone: Sep 9 2009, 04:27 AM |
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Sep 9 2009, 10:56 PM
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QUOTE(nimrod323 @ Sep 9 2009, 12:17 PM) no problem brother just pass the link around to those in need,that guy has the cheapest price for crucial. anyways regarding the beeps,it'll go off once you replace with hynix and put the crucial back in. Its the same solution my tech guy told me to do Roger. Since I already had someone ask me, here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=110424283534 It's an expired sale though. But search for his other sales and pick the one with the US pricing which I believe is the cheapest. |
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Sep 13 2009, 01:16 PM
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Don't be fooled by the generalization that you will never go wrong with SSD. The typical MLC SSD's with the JMicron controllers suck badly in average response time and maximum latency making it much worse than traditional mechanical HD's in some cases. Of course they sport very good sequential write but in the real world scenario what really matters is random read/write.
This is a must read article for those looking to buy SSD's http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1 It will help you to understand what to look for in an SSD. |
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Sep 15 2009, 11:05 AM
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QUOTE(vassalle @ Sep 15 2009, 12:09 AM) Thinking of upgrading my hard disk for my mbp 13.. I think my hard disk is slowing the system down a bit especially when opening 10mb raw image files, or generate thumbnails of it, or basically do anything with raw files on aperture.. OFFTOPIC:I understand that the wd 500gb 5200 is the favourite here but I dont particularly need that much space.. would prefer to have more speed vs space as I have over 1Tb on my desktop. What other brands/speed hdisk that you guys could recommend HD or SSD? Thanks I see you might be annoyed with the slowdown caused by automatic generation of previews in Aperture. Check this article out: http://photo.rwboyer.com/2009/01/03/apertu...aging-previews/ Very useful in getting aperture to behave the way you want it to generate previews. EDIT: be warned, the pictures linked by the thumbnails are NSFW. Also check out his other aperture guides here: http://photo.rwboyer.com/aperture-guides/ It was very helpful for me in learning how to make full use of Aperture's picture management. Added on September 15, 2009, 11:16 am QUOTE(vassalle @ Sep 15 2009, 08:52 AM) Do you experience any of the problems here? Similar to jinaun I'm using the 500GB WD Scorpio Blue which doesn't have a motion sensor WD5000BEVT."A light bulb then went off… we started to associate the panics with movement. Then it hit us like 3 tons of bowling balls, the Scorpio has built-in shock protection. The ShockGuard technology that WD employs is interfering with the Macs own head parking technology. We placed another call into Other World and returned the second Scorpio in exchange for the slightly more expensive Seagate Momentus (which does not have built-in shock protection). After installing the Momentus and cloning over the now tired image, we haven’t had a single kernal panic. All that said, if you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro, DO NOT upgrade to the WD Scorpio line of hard drives. They are definitely fine drives, just not fine for MacBook/Pro owners." http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?showt...&st=0&p=659815& EDIT: Only the Scorpio black has an optional motion sensor (WD****BJKT) and it's slightly more expensive than the one without. On the other hand, if you get a drive with it's own built in motion sensor, you have to disable the Macbook's own sensor (google it). This post has been edited by MetalZone: Sep 15 2009, 01:28 PM |
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Sep 17 2009, 09:34 PM
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QUOTE(Crefigz @ Sep 16 2009, 09:14 PM) Guys, I'm not really good with tech stuff even after reading all these. You can put any in.I have Scorpio Black WD3200BJKT and Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVT (320GB) now, which one should I put in my MBP ? Have to disable my MBP's sensor if I want to use Black ? I thought Black has 7200rpm thats why I get it. But since your scorpio black has the motion sensor (BJKT) you have to disable the MBP's sensor if you want to use it. Kernel panic's happen because the MBP's sensor is conflicting with the HDD's own sensor. |
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Jan 3 2011, 02:20 AM
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I use Crucial RAM on mine. Not specifically certified for Mac but Apple has been known to use Crucial/Micron RAM's so I just went with it.
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