Highly recommended.īy putting an SSD in my 2011 MBP, I was happy enough with the new performance that I was able to hold out until the July 2018 models came out and then I finally got a new one. An SSD is the last best upgrade an old Mac can have. Speeding that up by 5x makes a huge difference. And so much of what your Mac does is storage-based, from loading code to virtual memory swap files to frequently writing and reading from caches, that the Mac hits the disk constantly. It is impossible to put any other part in that Mac that would be five times faster. Sure, even a new hard drive would probably be faster, but a typical, affordable SSD is going to be roughly five times faster (450-500MB/sec) than the old hard drive. Let's look at why.īut if you still have the original hard drive, I'll bet it's well under 100MB/sec, maybe under 70MB/sec. There is nothing else that you can do that would boost performance so much. Honestly, it's hard to go back to a hard drive after you've run a system on a solid state drive. And the system as a whole became more responsive.

Boot times on both Macs went from over a minute, to seconds. On my 2011 MacBook Pro and old Mac Pro tower, replacing the hard drives with SSDs boosted performance by a large margin.

** I know a new laptop is the best option, and, is must within the next 3 years, but I don't know if I can improve the one that I have currently. What do you guys think? Should I work on it, use it till it dies, or, is time for a new MacBook (probably one of 4-core 13 in or 15 in)? Upgrading will probably include a new battery too as the health seems to be around 77% (and sometimes 67% which is odd?) I did a geekbench test, the single core performance was around 33 for multi ( almost 1/3 performance of the newer laptops). I've been debating, is an SSD upgrade worth it at this stage? (about $120), how much improvement am I going to see when it comes to performance not only booting up the system and apps? The worst thing that I do with this machine is editing 4K videos with iMovie occasionally. I would love to buy a new machine but I'm not ready for that yet especially with the current prices (2K+) and I love iMovie, otherwise, a Surface could be an option (or a some sort of a 'gaming' laptop). I'm still rocking the OEM HDD and I guess after 6 years of use, it started to slow down and heat up a bit. I have a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 Model), Processor: 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7, Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB.

Macbook pro 13 mid 2012 ssd upgrade