SSD Upgrades for MacBook / MacBook Pro

SSD stands for solid state drive. They have no moving parts and are more energy efficient. They are much like a pen drive or Ram. They have the potential to be very very fast and will most likely be the way we store information in the near future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

hope that cleared things up :)

What does SSD stand for?

If you continue to bandy TLAs {three letter abbreviations} without also putting them in full, I'l go elsewhere for my mac news. Rant over.

I'm glad someone is offering this as a service, but I do need to add a couple of things to anyone thinking of upgrading to a SSD:

1. Research. These drives are pretty slow compared to the other SSDs on the market. I eventually went with a Samsung SSD for my macbook, and my benchmarks blow theirs away. My write speeds are faster than the 5400 RPM HDD that came stock with this machine.

2. MacBook HDD replacement is "user serviceable". You'll need a torx bit, but completely easy to do. No need to send your machine in. Even if you need to send your machine in for repair, the SSD should not affect the MacBook's warranty (you might need to prove the MBP's SSD was installed by an Apple certified tech).

3. I'd wait until OWC offers the samsung drives (thanks for the new egg link, btw), or iResq.com offers the upgrade service. Besides, the price will only go down.

4. SATA is pretty darn fast (MacBook/MacBook Pro are SATA I) @ 1.5Gbps, SATA II would be faster. The MacBook Air's PATA interface is an embarassing bottleneck for the SSD option. I'd be curious to see if Apple could redesign the second rev of the MBA to be a direct/on board SSD storage solution (standard).

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Slightly offtopic.
A few months back I upgraded the drive in my mbPro and wasn't hard at all. Now I have an Air and maybe if prices plumment in a year or two I would like to swap the HD for SSD. I haven't seen the internals on the Air, is it even accessible to hope for that?

It would be interesting to find out if the company would allow you to provide your own SSD drive to knock the cost down.

I also wonder if there is any kind of warranty that they provide? If not, I couldn't see doing this to my MBP until my AppleCare expires in 2 years...

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Newegg has same drive for much cheaper.

128GB for $639

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609304

Agree, you could just buy an SSD drive and install it yourself.

I'm wondering, wasn't SSD meant to run on something faster than SATA? Something like a direct connection to the motherboard or something (I heard something a while ago, but it doesn't really make sense now.. hmm..)

JJ is right much too expensive.

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