Optimizing performance with an SSD.

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• Increase the performance of MAC with the SSD upgrade

  I have a 21.5-inch iMac model 14.1 (end 2013) with 8 GB of memory and a 1 TB drive. On this, I use some applications in memory such as Adobe CS 5.5 and VMWare Fusion 8.1.1. I have Applecare on the machine until September 2017. I often find myself running out of memory. My goto solution would be to increase the memory and replace the hard drive with an SSD. I fear, however, that this cancels my Applecare. My research indicates that while that frowned upon, I can upgrade my memory and keep my Applecare as long as it is done by an authorized by Apple, but if I do the SSD I'm out of luck for the installed components. My thought is that I can get an external SSD and move the ' WIndows 10' VM (s), as well as expand and move the swapfiles for the SSD system.»

  My questions are am I right about the Applecare and warranty and I plan to use an external SSD to accelerate performance and ease the work of memory constraints?

  I have f

  I have a Macbook Air in 2010 and also a 2008 iMac - both with only 4 GB of memory (you have twice as much), both running El Capitan and the two with SSD - and perform very well. The 2008 iMac used to have a rotating disc which has recently failed, with the replacement of SSD, it is a remarkable transformation with the new SSD, it seems very quickly for me. Both have Photoshop CS4, which is not used much more, but they run this software very well, as well as MS Office 2011 and other programs such as Mail, Safari, Firefox, etc. (Firefox + Photoshop together put a noticeable load on machines, in fact, but while I sometimes hear the fans come on the Macbook Air, it maintains not up very well) No slowdown) You'll be in great shape with a SSD for your newer computer. These old machines that I use have Core 2 Duo CPUs, chips relatively slow, but they seem very quickly with the SSD.

  You will need to check with Apple directly on your AppleCare and so that would be affected. I don't know that anyone is not Apple should trust this question.

• Satellite A200-1TW - slow performance even with a SSD HARD drive

  I replaced the HARD drive of 160 GB for a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB and even a Samsun 830 256 GB SSD, but my HARD drive performance is very slow.

  How can I increase the performance of my HARD drive?

  I have 4 GB of RAM and I am using Windows 7 Home.

  What do you mean exactly by the slow HARD drive performance.

  As far as I know the laptop supports a SATA I (1.5 Gbit/s / 150 MB/s) the HARD disk controller.
  Even if you would upgrade the laptop with a SSD drive that supports 3 Gbps, the controller could slow performance.

• Improve performance with an external SSD thuderbolt

  Hi all.

  I have a performance problem with my Photoshop and I'd like to get some kind of help. Currently I have a 27 "iMac i7 3, 5 GHz, 16 GB of Ram and 3 TB HD... However, working with large files photoshop performance is not really good. I have tried many things and recommendations already, but the performance is always the same.

  However, I read on the Internet that obtaining external lightning THAT SSD could not understand the problem (the option to purchase an internal SSD is completely ignored.). The idea is to buy one of this external thundebold SSD (about 300) and import the images that I work with in this disc. When I finished my editing process I could move all files to my internal drive to 3 TB of storage overhead in order to have here all the files (PSD, RAW and JPG). If I need to edit again a TIF I could bring it back to the SSD, work there, finish the process and move again to the 3 to HD.

  What do you think of this idea?

  Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my English level if a lot of mistakes were made.

  Assign multiple disks scratch from the same real disk will have a detrimental effect on performance. For an SSD, it is neutral. Basically, very large volumes of data must be moved to and from the "scratch disks". You get better performance with

  * more fast disks

  separate disks

  So, don't assume don't you stop using the internal disk for scratch! All of the two disks is better than one, probably.

  No, it makes no difference where Photoshop is installed either. Dwelling on an issue key, setting workspace. I gave a very simple view, others may have different views. But the bottom line is that adding a new drive is not going to help unless it is used for this purpose.

  "Do you think I have my problem to my internal HDD fault? I think that Yes... »

  Well, we do not know. For example, you can monitor disk and CPU to see who is at its maximum? If you do not know, you could be throwing money on the problem of evil. But certainly, those who want high performance buy discs specifically to use as scratch - many of them.

• The MBP 13 "with an SSD upgrade

  I want to upgrade my Macbook Pro 13 "(fin 2011)." I want to remove the optical drive and replace it with the SSD. The problem is that my hard drive is almost 400 GB occupied out of 500 GB. The budget SSD will be the 250 GB. How should I proceed in this case, I want the OS can be completely copied into the SSD and the rest of the things in the hard drive. Have I not clone entire hard drive SSD or copy only the operating system work? Applications work if they are in the hard drive and operating system is in SSD.

  Usually in the facilities of double disc such as you plan, the DSS should have the OSX installed on it and find where the current HARD drive.  The HARD drive is then placed in the location of the DVD player.  But the final choice is always yours.

  Back up your data on an external HARD drive.

  Because the SSD will not have the capacity to hold all of your data, I recommend that you format the SSD drive, install the OSX and install it in the MBP.

  Then you have some decisions to make.  What data do you want on the SSD and what data to remain on the HARD disk in the location of DVD?  From inside connectivity is much faster than USB (unless you have a connection available Thunderbolt), I would setup the backup disk in the DVD drive and data location 'drag & drop' for the SSD.

  Depending on the capacity/performance of the HARD drive and HARD drive backup, you can keep them where they are or trade.  If keep you them where they are, clear the outboard/back up in the car and the two internal drives to backup.  If change you disks, clone the drive that now is outboard to the internal HARD drive (it has all of your data and the top OSX) and then erase the drive HARD outside and safeguarding the two internal drives for it.

  Life would be simpler if you can afford a 500 GB SSD.

  Ciao.

• Is it possible to change the 500 GB HARD drive with an SSD on my HP Pavilion MS228sc?

  I wonder if it is possible to change the 500 GB HARD drive with an SSD on my HP Pavilion MS228sc?

  If 'yes', I guess I have to go for a SATA SSD if there is. But I have to worry about other specs?

  If 'Yes'... what could be.

  I googled my question but no answers... so I ty Wizzards :-) Forum

  @Lord_Nikon

  In fact, this is not true. As long as he uses a large SSD enough it will be able to use the recovery media. I suggest using a SSD of 256 or 512 GB if budgeted for the upgrade...

  He doesn't have to make a Windows 7 installation USB drive and use the activation key license on the certificate of authenticity from the PC Windows to perform a cleanup to install.

  One of them should be on your PC. The Prodct key is what is needed for installation and activation online.

  

• Speed XP Virtual Machine with disk SSD/Velociraptor/7200 RPM EVEN!

  Hi all -

  Recently I decided that I was tired of waiting for one of my XP VM to boot. He took ~6.5 minutes, at the time where all services started and everything and I've been to a logon screen. I have a Velociraptor that my (clean install of Windows 7 x 64 RC1) operating system was turned on, so I bought an SSD, installed and copied my my 7200 RPM WD Caviar Black VMs to the SSD. Naturally, I was not impressed by the results of the tests AT ALL. I saw the following:

  • Operating system loaded on Velociraptor, VM XP on WD Caviar= 6.5 minutes to start the VM/login prompt to appear

  • Operating system loaded on Velociraptor, VM on SSD= 6.25 minutes to start the VM/login prompt to appear

  • Operating system loaded on SSD, VM on Velociraptor= 6.5 minutes to start the VM/login prompt to appear

  This seems really strange, since all the posts that I read is the drive faster, faster operates the VMWare VM / fastest. Throw into the mix that the portable original that this virtual machine has been converted will start in about 3.25 minutes (IBM T42, Celeron CPU @ 1.70 GHz, 2 GB RAM) and something seems really wrong...

  I had markers with crystal drive and I'm getting great flow on the SSD; readings are really quick, / writing sucks, as expected.  I also notice that my boot time host o/s, Office, race etc. faster.  I really expected increases in day/night performance here on my virtual machine, not more of the same for disk SSD $200...

  By the way, I have dedicated 2 GB of RAM to this VM XP and have only run with a single processor.  And before anyone asks: no, I can not improved this virtual machine to Vista/Windows 7, due to restrictions on IT.

  So, my questions for the group here are:

  1. Is there something special I need to do to make the more attentive virtual machine?  The main thing that I hear, it is to throw as much RAM and disk speed, you can him... obviously, I did... and no, dedicate 3 GB, 4 GB of RAM doesn't help, either. I already tried...

  2. My VM has a single disk (~ 42GB).  Would I have noticed no improvement in speed, dividing the disk (in pieces of 2GB)?

  3. I see the best performance by using a dedicated hard drive controller (Vs the edge)?

  4. If I see the best performance with a hard disk controller dedicated, he's more intelligent RAID 0 two Velociraptors or two SSD performance for VMWare?

  I am willing to spend money on a controller or another SSD or Velociraptor (or a controller and another drive), I don't want to feel like I am wasting time and $$$ trying to achieve a performance that cannot be established in VMWare.

  My features of the platform are:

  • Operating systems: Windows 7 x 64 RC1 (fresh installs for all tests)

  • CPU: C2D E6750-2.67 GHz

  • RAM: 8 GB RAM

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte P35-DS3L (Southbridge: ICH9)

  • Storage:

  • Corsair Extreme Series CMFSSD - 1 64 64 GB 2.5 "SATA II MLC (contains the OS)

  • Western Digital Velociraptor 150 GB (contains virtual machines)

  • Western Digital Caviar Black 1.0 TB (General store)

  Thank you, in advance, for all your comments.

  @ noirfan1:

  Re: #1: OK, it used to take me more than an hour to perform a scan on demand with the vmdk files stored on a 1 TB western digital 7200 RPM drive.  When I moved to an SSD (60 GB Supertalent) vmdk files time has decreased to the point where the total scan time less than 8 minutes.

  Re: #2: OK, I think that there may be a service startup time, driver, or a process that can be hung up the system which is not related to disk IO.

  Re: #3: If you use the same .vm * exact files on two different systems and see a big difference in time of start, check and confirm that the virtual machine configuration settings are identical.  An example would be to have the virtual CD-ROM connected to an ISO on a network share and have the virtual CD-ROM disconnected from each other.

  A good test in the strict sense for the disk performance is to create clean XP install on the raptor and the DSS, and compare boot times in this way.  I'm not too familiar with the SSD Corsair you mention, but it should be faster.  Beware if it is based on the Jmicron controller (they are known to have huge problems with the random read performance) instead of a controller Indilinx Barefoot or Intel.

  Another test of the performance of the hard drive could run iometer inside each virtual machine to check the raw performance of io.  HD tune is another tool, that you can use for an easier test.

  I hope this helps.

• I have a mac with an SSD, it freezes after almost exactly 60 minutes

  I have a Mac with an SSD. It freezes after almost exactly 60 minutes and made for quite awhile - new version of iOS makes no difference

  What specific model Mac?

  Install a speed temperature and fan monitoring app like the following to see if overheating is the cause of the problem

  http://www.CrystalIDEA.com/Macs-fan-control

  • Note the time of the next frost. After the reboot, open the Console app in Finder > Applications > utilities and look for entries of the log at the time of freezing. Suspicious message here.

  Search before the journal entry that begins with BOOT_TIME since it is the first line of ahttp://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control start

• Is it possible to replace the hard drive with an SSD? or would it be too expensive?

  Is it possible to replace the hard drive with an SSD?

  or would it be too expensive?

  Yes.  There are several alternatives.  I found a way relatively inexpensive, using a map of mSATA (very small SSD) and an adapter to connect it to the connector IDE 44 pin internal of my PowerBook.  It works very well.  Rather than repeat what I posted previously, you can watch these two topics (which also has good info, other users)

  Re: This win to install a SSD drive in a PowerBook G4?

  Re: SSDS  (my post is halfway - "this is how I did with my trusty Pismo...) »)

  FYI - I have used the adapter is even cheaper now

  https://www.Amazon.com/GP/product/B009BA8V4M

• I have a MBP of 2009 end. I updated the material to 8 GB of ram with an SSD of 240gig. I want to run the new OSX, but is not on the list approved for the update. Anyone know why?

  I have a MBP of 2009 end. I updated the material to 8 GB of ram with an SSD of 240gig. I want to run the new OSX, but is not on the list approved for the update. Anyone know why?

  It is a decision that was made by Apple.  El Capitan is the newest OSX that will support a 2009 MBP.

  This is not uncommon.  My 2006 MBP came with Tiger, but is limited to OSX Snow Leopard.

  Old hardware ends up by becoming obsolete with newer technology.

  Ciao.

• Upgrade a MBP 2011 end, 13 "with a ssd

  I think of upgrading my MacBook Pro 8.1 end 2011, 13 "by replacing the hd with an ssd.

  I have an external hard drive now run with time machine, so I think I have a good back up.

  I would appreciate any comments about what is available: manufacturers and models.

  reliability, how to work, what to avoid and not to do.

  OWC is a good place to go for the upgrade of your Macbook Pro.

  Of OWC SSD: OWC SSD

  I upgraded my Early 2011 13 inch Macbook Pro using a SSD Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB and I've seen a dramatic speed increase.

  Once you decide on a SSD, I suggest that you install it in an external enclosure from OWC enclosure or with a USB to SATA adapter SATA USB adapter and connect to your MBP via USB.

  Open disk utility > delete and format the SSD for Mac OS extended (journaled) and a GUID partition.

  Then, use a third party application like Carbon Copy Cloner Carbon Copy Cloner (not free, but worth the price) or Super Duper to copy all data from the HARD drive internal as well as the recovery partition.

  The clone will be an exact copy of your hard drive and it will be bootable.

  Start the MBP with the OPTION key (Startup Manager) key and select the new SSD. How to choose a disk to boot your Mac.

  If it starts the MBP, proceed to the physical interchange of disks.

  Now that you have your open computer you can also upgrade the memory. It is very easy.

  OWC memory OWC or crucial memory Mac Crusial are good places to get the memory.

  You could watch a video guide to see how much is involved.

  OWC install videos

  Note the identifier of the computer model that you as most of the applications are on the page.

  Visit this link to determine your model of MacBook Pro.

  • How to identify MacBook Pro - Apple Support models

  Introduction to the upgrade of the MacBook Pro 13 inch 2012 model with the Second drive hard and new SSD 16 GB of Ram - YouTube:

  Part 1: Introduction to the upgrade of the MacBook Pro 13 inch 2012 model with the Second drive hard and new SSD 16 GB of Ram

  Part 2: Step by step how to clone an SSD with Mac Book Pro 13 inch 2009-2012

  Part 3: 16, SSD and drive hard second installation GB of Ram in Mac Book Pro 13 inch 2012

  Part 4: Step by step how to install an optical Cd will lead a 2009 MacBook Pro

  Kim

• I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro mid-2012 with an SSD

  I got the MacBook Pro 13 inch mid-2012 non-retine, it is only 1 year. And I would like to replace the HARD drive with the EVO of 850 Samsung 500 GB 2.5 inch SATA III internal SSD I was wondering if this would correspond to my Mac. Also, how exactly do to install it. I thought I was doing the StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5 "SATA III hard drive adaptor cable w / UASP - SATA to USB 3.0 Converter for SSD/HDD - Hard Drive cable adapter so I can get the system running before putting it in my Mac. I was wondering also I need another thing as a kit Assembly or not. Can someone please help me I'm completely lost.

  Thanks, Conor

  Here's a video that explains in detail the process of installing an SSD in your Mac. It was reported some difficulties with Samsung SSD in Macs so you can also watch offers OWC (which provides the installation videos). Note that the SSD is the same form factor and the HD 2.5 "also note that one of them might allow you to test first the SSD and clone your internal drive which him.

• I need to upgrade my Mac (MacBook white unibody mid 2010) with a SSD (and iMac mid-2010) and the RAM and SSD

  I need to upgrade my Mac (white unibody MacBook mid-2010) with a SSD (and iMac mid-2010) and the RAM and SSD: I look to buy upgrades site Crucial and OWC site and there is a little difference, in terms of money: it's better to buy the Crucial site or OWC site.

  MacBook, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

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  They have good tools to find compatible parts for your Mac models.  The OWC took is here

  http://eShop.MacSales.com/MyOWC/

  OWC tends to have the most detailed information on the Mac.  If I look to the top of the part to OWC and review specifications.  OWC offers often information based on the Mac-specific tests.  If Crucial offer something similar for a substantially lower price, buy it from Crucial.  I'm sure they have a refund is not political, if a part they say is compatible.  I bought the RAM and SSD both Crucial and OWC.  From my experience, be it high quality.

  For the 2010 iMac, OWC also offers a "kit" (with the tools and support) to replace the hard drive of 3.5 inches with a 2.5-inch SSD.  Eventually, if it's a 27-inch iMac, I think that you can Add the SSD instead of replace the hard drive.  And they have self-produced how-to videos on the process, related to many of their lists of products.  OWC provides a lot of information with added value and service for Mac users.

  OWC also offers kits to replace the optical drive on some Macs (including MacBooks) with an SSD (as a secondary internal drive).

• Replace old hard drive with an SSD.  Nowsome keys on the keyboard no longer works.  Ex 'e' and 'b' keys no longer work?  Any idea what could take place in the disc replacement?

  Replace old hard drive with an SSD.  Now some of the keys on the keyboard stopped working.  Ex 'e' and 'b' keys no longer work?  Any idea what could take place in the disc replacement?

  Probably nothing, it's probably a fluke. Try resetting the SMC and the PRAM by iMac Intel SCM and reset the PRAM. If this does not work, try a USB keyboard to test, if it works then your original keyboard has failed and must be replaced.

• Can I change hard drive with an SSD in Toshiba NB100?

  Can I change hard drive with an SSD in Toshiba NB100?
  The hard drive in this model is the same size as SSD 2.5 drive "?

  Hello

  As far as I know the laptop supports the disk HARD 2.5 SATA.
  I think you could use a SATA SSD drive. Usually some SSDS require the firmware update but this should be provided by the manufacturers of SSD drives.