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I have a SSD on my Macbook Pro. Totally worth it. Definitely snappier in booting up, starting up apps, and any disk i/o-intensive operations. It's certainly not

by waxman 16y ago

I have a SSD on my Macbook Pro. Totally worth it. Definitely snappier in booting up, starting up apps, and any disk i/o-intensive operations. It's certainly noticeable. Also, you don't need to sweat the higher price per byte, because more and more of my files (and I would assume yours?) are on the cloud every day anyways, so 256GB or even 128GB is fine for me these days.

mbreese 16y ago
I did the same thing... and it was great. I added a 128GB SSD, but unfortunately, I needed more space for media and work files (large datasets). So, I ended up removing the DVD drive and replaced it with the old hard drive. I never need the DVD drive outside of the house, so this ended up working great for me.
- misterbwong 16y ago
  I'm planning on doing the same thing with my Macbook when the new Intel 24nm SSD's come out in Q4 '10 or Q1 '11. The new drives will bring down prices on the 128GB drive to <$200.
- waxman 16y ago
  Very interesting hack. For me, media files were a killer too, so I simply put my media collection on an external HDD, "cached" my favorite 20GB or so of content on my SSD (the stuff I put on my iPhone, essentially), and started relying more on streaming services like Pandora, Rdio, and Hulu, etc. I did this in July and I haven't used the external drive even once...
ary 16y ago
There are several comments about people putting them in MBPs, but I guess I'll ask you... since OS X doesn't support TRIM have you seen any degradation in performance? I've been on the fence for a while due to the cost and OS X being behind the times.
- cpr 16y ago
  I haven't seen any after a year of using my MBP with the stock Apple 128GB SSD.
- waxman 16y ago
  I also haven't had any problems (though only after 3 months). I am both aware and a little nervous about the issue, though, so I've run a few benchmarks, and so far, so good. I'll be sure to tell HN if this changes.

by waxman 16y ago

mbreese 16y ago

I did the same thing... and it was great. I added a 128GB SSD, but unfortunately, I needed more space for media and work files (large datasets). So, I ended up removing the DVD drive and replaced it with the old hard drive. I never need the DVD drive outside of the house, so this ended up working great for me.

misterbwong 16y ago
I'm planning on doing the same thing with my Macbook when the new Intel 24nm SSD's come out in Q4 '10 or Q1 '11. The new drives will bring down prices on the 128GB drive to <$200.
waxman 16y ago
Very interesting hack. For me, media files were a killer too, so I simply put my media collection on an external HDD, "cached" my favorite 20GB or so of content on my SSD (the stuff I put on my iPhone, essentially), and started relying more on streaming services like Pandora, Rdio, and Hulu, etc. I did this in July and I haven't used the external drive even once...

ary 16y ago

There are several comments about people putting them in MBPs, but I guess I'll ask you... since OS X doesn't support TRIM have you seen any degradation in performance? I've been on the fence for a while due to the cost and OS X being behind the times.

cpr 16y ago
I haven't seen any after a year of using my MBP with the stock Apple 128GB SSD.
waxman 16y ago
I also haven't had any problems (though only after 3 months). I am both aware and a little nervous about the issue, though, so I've run a few benchmarks, and so far, so good. I'll be sure to tell HN if this changes.