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Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.portable, comp.sys.mac.hardware, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD?
Date	2017-02-23 02:33 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-02-23, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 2/22/2017 11:44 AM, Neill Massello wrote:
>> David B. <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you any personal experience of replacing a hard drive in an iMac
>>> with an SSD?
>>
>> Not an iMac, but a 2012 Mac mini. Replacing the internal 5400rpm HDD
>> with an SSD, the speed improvement was . . . staggering. This was
>> running 10.11, although reports are that results are similar with any OS
>> version from 10.9 onward.
>
> What about v10.8.5/Mountain Lion?

SSDs work just fine in any recent version of macOS, including 10.8. The
speed increase will be substantial regardless of what version macOS is
installed.

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What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-22 01:06 -0800
  Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-22 10:18 +0000
    Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-22 09:04 -0800
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-22 17:33 +0000
        Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 13:37 -0500
          Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-22 19:29 +0000
            Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 14:42 -0500
              Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-25 07:42 +0000
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-25 09:52 -0500
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-25 18:17 +0000
                OT chatter -- (was Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 10:34 -0800
            Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-22 12:44 -0700
              Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-22 17:28 -0800
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-23 02:33 +0000
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 23:12 -0500
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-23 00:28 -0700
              Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-25 07:52 +0000
    Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-22 12:31 -0700
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-22 19:38 +0000
        Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-23 00:04 -0700
          Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-23 17:00 +0000
            Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-23 17:03 +0000
              Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-23 17:24 +0000
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-23 18:10 +0000
            Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-23 14:05 -0700
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 14:42 -0500
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2017-02-22 15:20 -0500
  Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-23 00:06 +1300
    Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-22 11:59 +0000
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-02-28 16:23 +0100
  Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 15:43 +0000
  Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 11:07 -0500
    Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 16:16 +0000
      Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 11:21 -0500
        Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 16:22 +0000
          Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 11:45 -0500
            Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 17:31 +0000
              Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-22 13:37 -0500
                Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 19:06 +0000
  Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2017-02-23 15:34 -0500
    Re: What's a good SSD to replace a 15" mid-2008 MBP(model A1260)'s HDD? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-23 15:35 -0500

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