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Hi all,
wow, it's been a wee while since I have been on here. My life got a bit hectic a while back and I haven't had the time to browse forums like I used to.
However,
I just got another external hard drive for my first Gen MBP and decided to see how much SSD drives were. I found a 128Gb drive made by Kingston for £167 which is a lot cheaper than when I last looked.
Link
Even though this is relatively cheap, I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of either
a) Using this drive in their MBP
or
c) Putting an SSD into a MBP?
I have glanced at stories about intel SSD's have degregation problems and so forth so just wondered what you guys think? would I be better off saving for a new MBP instead of trying to hoik up it's performance with a snazzy hard drive?
I still have my original 80Gb drive in and use the laptop every day for After Effects and editing. I do use external drives for big jobs but a lot of the time I find my self working on stuff from the internal drive so I guess I am just a little wary of how SSD's handle a lot of read/writes.
I'm still running OSX 10.4.11 as well. This is as stock as they come!
apart from now having the maximum 2Gb ram installed.
Thank you in advance for any information you can give,
Mel
wow, it's been a wee while since I have been on here. My life got a bit hectic a while back and I haven't had the time to browse forums like I used to.
However,
I just got another external hard drive for my first Gen MBP and decided to see how much SSD drives were. I found a 128Gb drive made by Kingston for £167 which is a lot cheaper than when I last looked.
Link
Even though this is relatively cheap, I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of either
a) Using this drive in their MBP
or
c) Putting an SSD into a MBP?
I have glanced at stories about intel SSD's have degregation problems and so forth so just wondered what you guys think? would I be better off saving for a new MBP instead of trying to hoik up it's performance with a snazzy hard drive?
I still have my original 80Gb drive in and use the laptop every day for After Effects and editing. I do use external drives for big jobs but a lot of the time I find my self working on stuff from the internal drive so I guess I am just a little wary of how SSD's handle a lot of read/writes.
I'm still running OSX 10.4.11 as well. This is as stock as they come!
apart from now having the maximum 2Gb ram installed.Thank you in advance for any information you can give,
Mel
