You can get a really great high-end drive like a Samsung EVO drive for about $300. Compare that to buying an internal SSD from Amazon, which costs as low as $125-$175 for a base level 1TB internal SSD. Apple likes that because they want you to buy a new $2,000 computer or pay stupidly high prices at the time of purchase.Īt the time of purchase, the upgrade to a 1 TB SSD on a Mac mini or MacBook Pro will cost $800.
A lot of Macs won’t let users upgrade their storage without replacing the whole motherboard.
Today, you’ll have to run through a complicated set of steps if you can even do the upgrade. Replacing the drive in a Mac mini or iMac got a little more complicated, but the owner could still do it or take it to any computer shop. In the old days we took off the bottom of the MacBook, unplugged the old drive and put in a new one. The solve the problem of a full hard drive you have to add storage or replace the hard drive. Now that you’ve installed your large Bible study library all of your movies and the 10 years of digital photos you shot, the computer says it won’t even let you install that tiny app from the Mac App store or download a new commentary series to your Bible software. Let’s say you bought a computer with a 128GB drive. I still think the 5,1 is the coolest looking computer ever made.Add a 1TB SSD to your Mac for over $600 less than buying from Apple. The better drive speeds helps with virtual instruments, on the music side any delay is very hard to deal with tempo wise, the sonnet card helped.Įspecially with drum samples, and v drums. Then got a few ocw sleads just to make it look better. I did for a Awhile just stick ssd’s Put in to the drive Bay Area, with no sleds, just put em in and let them hang. Never had a eject issue, and run two drives, but no raid, I took the card out, was going to send it back, and forgot about it.įound the card a year later or so, pulled it out, updated Card firmware, had also went through a few boot rom updates, so not sure what did it.Īnd runs a good bit faster than drive or optical bays. Having a flashed gpu, I wanted my dang boot screen.
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