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Hi All,
I have in my possession a late-2011 MBP that has thankfully been working quite well over the last few years and is in excellent condition. However it now takes 2-3 minutes to boot up with no start up menus. I believe, given its age that the hard drive may be beginning to fail. It appears that it has been used for browsing, remote connection for work and itunes due to the storage availability.
As you can see there is not much on this laptop in terms of usage and since its condition is excellent it may be cheaper to do some upgrades versus purchasing a new one at this time.I do know that when fairly new the library was accidentally erased and a very young knowledgable computer prodigy was able to recover everything .
The specs are:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
Processor 2.2GHz Intel core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.
I am going to purchase a 500 GB external HD to back things up. I also can get a new in package Samsung - 860 EVO 500GB Internal SATA Solid State Drive for about $45.
Is this a good option ? Also would I benefit by upgrading to 16GB of RAM from 8 GB.
Also can someone also advise and explain, if possible on what the following means.
Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Media /SATA Internal Physical Disk GUID Partition Map..500.11 GB
Location: Internal
Connection: SATA
Partition Map: GUID Partion Map
S.M.A.R.T status: Verified
Capacity: 500.11 GB
Child Content: 3
Type: Disk
Device: disk0
Used: 499.55 GB
Macintosh HD.CoreStorage Logical Volume Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Capacity: 498.9
Available: 468.95
Used:30.2 GB
Type: Core Storage Logical Volume
Owners: enabled
Connection: SATA
Device: Disk1
Is this MBP worth keeping and upgrading ?
Thanks to all in advance that can offer any input.
I have in my possession a late-2011 MBP that has thankfully been working quite well over the last few years and is in excellent condition. However it now takes 2-3 minutes to boot up with no start up menus. I believe, given its age that the hard drive may be beginning to fail. It appears that it has been used for browsing, remote connection for work and itunes due to the storage availability.
As you can see there is not much on this laptop in terms of usage and since its condition is excellent it may be cheaper to do some upgrades versus purchasing a new one at this time.I do know that when fairly new the library was accidentally erased and a very young knowledgable computer prodigy was able to recover everything .
The specs are:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
Processor 2.2GHz Intel core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.
I am going to purchase a 500 GB external HD to back things up. I also can get a new in package Samsung - 860 EVO 500GB Internal SATA Solid State Drive for about $45.
Is this a good option ? Also would I benefit by upgrading to 16GB of RAM from 8 GB.
Also can someone also advise and explain, if possible on what the following means.
Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Media /SATA Internal Physical Disk GUID Partition Map..500.11 GB
Location: Internal
Connection: SATA
Partition Map: GUID Partion Map
S.M.A.R.T status: Verified
Capacity: 500.11 GB
Child Content: 3
Type: Disk
Device: disk0
Used: 499.55 GB
Macintosh HD.CoreStorage Logical Volume Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Capacity: 498.9
Available: 468.95
Used:30.2 GB
Type: Core Storage Logical Volume
Owners: enabled
Connection: SATA
Device: Disk1
Is this MBP worth keeping and upgrading ?
Thanks to all in advance that can offer any input.