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- MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) 8GB
My daughter has a mid 2012 MBP running Mojave with the original 500 gb HD and 8gb memory. Laptop is very slow and we want to upgrade to a new ssd. She currently has in the 6+ years of usage less than 50 gb of data on the original hard drive. The MBP is in very good shape and is used for college and social media purposes.
Due to its age and usage would it be in her best interest to purchase a 250 GB SSD instead of the more expensive 500 gb ssd. I am thinking to save $$ maybe she should purchase only a 250 gb ssd due to the fact that after 6+ years that she will not be able to fill a 500 gb ssd before the laptop is either deemed obsolete or before some other issue becomes apparent and we purchase a new MBP.
Or should we just get a 500 gb ssd.
Also when formatting the new drive I noticed that she has APFS Volume:APFS (Encrypted) in viewing disk utility. Should the new drive be formatted as just APFS or APFS (Encrypted).
We will be cloning the original drive to the new SSD via super duper.
Also, since it will be opened up would it be advantageous to upgrade to 16gb memory from the current 8gb or will the upgrade in memory not really be noticed and just leave the memory at 8gb.
Thanks for any and all replies.
Due to its age and usage would it be in her best interest to purchase a 250 GB SSD instead of the more expensive 500 gb ssd. I am thinking to save $$ maybe she should purchase only a 250 gb ssd due to the fact that after 6+ years that she will not be able to fill a 500 gb ssd before the laptop is either deemed obsolete or before some other issue becomes apparent and we purchase a new MBP.
Or should we just get a 500 gb ssd.
Also when formatting the new drive I noticed that she has APFS Volume:APFS (Encrypted) in viewing disk utility. Should the new drive be formatted as just APFS or APFS (Encrypted).
We will be cloning the original drive to the new SSD via super duper.
Also, since it will be opened up would it be advantageous to upgrade to 16gb memory from the current 8gb or will the upgrade in memory not really be noticed and just leave the memory at 8gb.
Thanks for any and all replies.