Monday, December 22, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] MacBook Pro 5.2 circa 2009 Ram and HD upgrades for Avid 7 and up?

 

What Rich said.

A couple months ago I built 3 desktop Avids plus a laptop Avid & they all have SSDs.  You won't regret it.




On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:37 PM, RRF Avid rrfavid@hotsprocketfilms.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

I have upgraded hard drives and added RAM to MBPs, and things went smoothly.  There are step by step instructions on-line with pix or videos.


I have been thinking about upgrading to an SSD on my 2011 MBP 17'.  My MP tube has flash boot storage and I love the way it boots up quickly - about 15 seconds from power on to the mac desktop.  Media Composer launches in about 18 seconds.  Everything feels really snappy.  I will bet you an Oki-Dog that you will love it.

- Rich

On Dec 22, 2014, at 5:23 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Time to spend some money before tax time.  I have a MacBook Pro 17 inch model 5.2 inch with SN 6.5.4.  It has a 500GB HD and 4Gig of Ram.  I think it wise to up the ram to max 8GB before moving to Avid 7 and higher.  At OWC I also see that I can go up to 2TB internal drive.  I see up to 2.0 TB conventional drives at 5400 rpm.  I see a HGST 1TB at 7200rpm.  Then there are SSDs up to 480  GB.  I'm curious about what benifit I might see in a 7200 rpm over the larger 5400 rpm.  I'm pretty sure the factory drive that came with my MBP is 5400 so is size or speed more important?  Or should I just jump into the SSD world.  I see a 480 GB unit and a 1TB unit that is a combo HD SSD.  I don't do a lot of heavy lifting on the MBP but with run Adobe CS4 and Avid to augment the edit systems I freelance on.

I figure the DIY kits they have available will get me the correct specialty screwdrivers I might need.  I remember Steve H said he upgraded his laptop DIY so it sounds doable.  Anybody got any warnings about cracking open my laptop to upgrade myself?
 
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net



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