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2ND Mac Hard Drive

eXero

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Let's say I wanted to change out the hard drive's in my MacBook Pro. It comes with a 500GB 5400 RPM HDD, but I wanted to buy a SSD, put it in as the main drive, put the OS from the 500GB drive on the SSD, sell the 500GB drive. What SSD would I buy, and what all do I need to know to change it out?
 

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What's your budget for an SSD? There are replacements sold for optical drivers that allow you to place an SSD in instead of an optical drive.
 

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I would just need to put the OS on the new SSD, then I could get rid of the HDD. 5400 RPM is too slow for me.

What would be a good budget for a 240GB SSD, or around that size?
 

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Thanks for that. But what about actually putting it into the MacBook Pro?
 

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I'm not 100% sure, but if it has any warranties they may become void if you open up your MAC book pro yourself to do things with it.
 
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