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Over the years, the 320 GB hard drive in my trusty, late 2008 15" had become noisy, slow - and almost full, so I ordered a 500 GB including the few tools required.
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The guide was more than sufficient, even for someone with limited experience. The physical exchange of the two drives was very quick. Installing OS X on the new drive was also easy. After restoring from Time machine backup, the old MacBook was again up and running, faster than before.
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I had forgot to order the adapter from hard drive connector to USB, luckily I had the correct one from an earlier project (the white, not the black, in the picture).
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Upgrading to a SSD would really speed loading of programs, and virtual memory / swap file I/O. Are you also running 8 GB of RAM?
Jose Francisco Medeiros - crwdns2934203:0crwdne2934203:0
i have been dutifully maintaining my late 2008 macbook pro... first, i replaced the half of the power cord that plugs into the wall and the cube... then i upgraded to 6GB RAM and a 500GB HDD... time to replace the battery after i found the touchpad was actually unusable due to heat-swelling... discovered after 6 years that i could burn cd's but not dvd's; laser out of calibration and no software utilities would realign it... bought sexy silver slot-loading external dvd rewriter on ebay for CHEAP, ordered hybrid ssd/hdd 1TB from owc and a 1tb hdd for cheap, removed superdrive and used data-doubler kit to install new ssd hybrid with new 1tb hdd and 2 more GB RAM... now stuck on el capitan, too old for new osx, installed fan-speed tweaking software to jack up fan speed to a high constant to prevent overheating... she's PIMPED!!! well worth it all, over almost 9 years! still speed demon! and it was FREE in the first place: i was awarded it for best performance over 3 months at my telecom!! SWEET. nevergiveup!
jenrhaine - crwdns2934203:0crwdne2934203:0