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Macbook hard drive replacement choice
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<blockquote data-quote="ronnie-1995" data-source="post: 1248129" data-attributes="member: 202832"><p>Hello there,</p><p>I have a macbook black early 2008, and my hard drive is dying.</p><p>It is the stock 250gb 5400rpm that came with it from new.</p><p></p><p>I am debating whether or not to buy a hard drive or ssd</p><p></p><p>The reason is that i need speed, as i can only run 2gb at the moment (due to a faulty ram slot) and it seems slow (mind you that is probably because of my dying hard drive).</p><p></p><p>So.. shall i go for a 500gb seagate hard drive with a 7200rpm speed @£49.95</p><p>or a 64gb ssd from kingston @£76.73? (<a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/247005" target="_blank">Kingston 64GB SSDNOW V100 - SATA-II 2.5" - Read.. | Ebuyer.com</a>)</p><p></p><p>Does solid state have a lot of speed boost, as that is what i need as i do not use much hard drive space on any internal drives, thats why i use external drives for any important or large files?</p><p></p><p>I would like webpages to load fast, applications to open almost instantaneously and the boot time to be a breeze.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So which should i go for?</p><p></p><p>Many thanks in advance <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ronnie-1995, post: 1248129, member: 202832"] Hello there, I have a macbook black early 2008, and my hard drive is dying. It is the stock 250gb 5400rpm that came with it from new. I am debating whether or not to buy a hard drive or ssd The reason is that i need speed, as i can only run 2gb at the moment (due to a faulty ram slot) and it seems slow (mind you that is probably because of my dying hard drive). So.. shall i go for a 500gb seagate hard drive with a 7200rpm speed @£49.95 or a 64gb ssd from kingston @£76.73? ([url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/247005]Kingston 64GB SSDNOW V100 - SATA-II 2.5" - Read.. | Ebuyer.com[/url]) Does solid state have a lot of speed boost, as that is what i need as i do not use much hard drive space on any internal drives, thats why i use external drives for any important or large files? I would like webpages to load fast, applications to open almost instantaneously and the boot time to be a breeze. So which should i go for? Many thanks in advance :) [/QUOTE]
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