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What to do after installing SSD?

rosudeuja
By rosudeuja
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hello,

         I am new and wanted to know what to do after installing SSD on my MacBook Pro 2010. I know how to change the HDD with the SSD as i've already done that(HDD for HDD) but nowhere was i able to find what to do after that. My main confusion is regarding TRIM & Firmware, i've seen these two terms a lot of places  but don't know what they are and what do i do regarding that. Also my MacBook Pro 2010 has SATA 2(3Gb/s) which means 384MB/s speed right?? is that write speed or read speed?? I have been eyeing on the Samsung 840 pro 128GB which has Sequential Read/Write speed of 530 MB/s / 390 MB/s and would like to get that if my MacBook Pro 2010 is capable of utilising that speed otherwise i'd settle for the Samsung 840 120GB. Thank you for the replies.

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It means read and wright, but sequential are not as important as IOPS for most people. Your macbook wouldn't use the full potential but most people won't notice, at least in my opinion. Upgrading firmware in SSDs rarely worth, it is one of the few things I normally dont suggest to upgrade. To enable Trim just check if your UEFI(BIOS) is in AHCI mode and that you use one of the newer versions of OSX( I do not know exactly which ones support TRIM, but the newer ones do). Anything you want to know more in depth just ask

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Turn off the page file. It will cause less memory to be used by the SSD as virtual RAM (if you have RAM to spare).

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Turn off the page file. It will cause less memory to be used by the SSD as virtual RAM (if you have RAM to spare).

Thanks for the reminder ;)

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