Budget Raid options for Macbook Pro

[SammyGoad]

I recently purchased a MacBook Pro i5 for school and want to improve its speed. I've already spent alot to buy it and dont want to invest another $60 on an ssd. I have a 320gb laptop hdd and want to Raid 0 the drives to increase performance. The original drive is 500 gb, is it possible to make a 320gb volume on the 500gb hdd so that it can be compatible for Raid? if not, is it possible to make a volume on the inner most part of the drive to increase speed? 

[flibberdipper]

If you decide to run RAID on mismatching drives then ideally Disk Utility will just make a 320GB partition on the drive that's larger and that'll be that, though the unused space would be completely unusable.

[SammyGoad]

4 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

If you decide to run RAID on mismatching drives then ideally Disk Utility will just make a 320GB partition on the drive that's larger and that'll be that, though the unused space would be completely unusable.

Thank you, I'm new to MacOs and am excited to learn all about it. I don't really care too much about the lost storage since I plan on using a NAS for mass storage. The 5 dollar drive bay slot to add another hdd should be enough to make day to day better!

 

Quick question, do ssds and raided harddrives make wake up quicker or only start up from off?

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

Thank you, I'm new to MacOs and am excited to learn all about it. I don't really care too much about the lost storage since I plan on using a NAS for mass storage. The 5 dollar drive bay slot to add another hdd should be enough to make day to day better!

 

Quick question, do ssds and raided harddrives make wake up quicker or only start up from off?

Generally speaking drives in RAID as a whole are faster than a single drive but obviously not as fast as an SSD.

[Weed man]

7 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

Thank you, I'm new to MacOs and am excited to learn all about it. I don't really care too much about the lost storage since I plan on using a NAS for mass storage. The 5 dollar drive bay slot to add another hdd should be enough to make day to day better!

 

Quick question, do ssds and raided harddrives make wake up quicker or only start up from off?

Still why not buy a windows laptop for the price you can get a much more powerful pc in terms of performance and gaming.

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Still why not buy a windows laptop for the price you can get a much more powerful pc in terms of performance and gaming.

because clearly I have a Windows Machine for gaming and performance.... I want a Mac for Style and simplicity at work and school

[Weed man]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

because clearly I have a Windows Machine for gaming and performance.... I want a Mac for Style and simplicity at work and school

Alrighty then!

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Alrighty then!

and honestly, I bought a Windows laptop and Windows 10 for laptops is cancer. CPU pinned at 100% for security shit literally minutes after booting, Cortona interrupting me every two seconds, and generally poor handling of custom support has pushed me to Mac for non-performance tasks.

[Weed man]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

and honestly, I bought a Windows laptop and Windows 10 for laptops is cancer. CPU pinned at 100% for security shit literally minutes after booting, Cortona interrupting me every two seconds, and generally poor handling of custom support has pushed me to Mac for non-performance tasks.

Linux is always an option still

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Linux is always an option still

I did run Linux on my Lenovo before it was stolen but its power management left alot to be desired, 2-3 hours at max

[Weed man]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

I did run Linux on my Lenovo before it was stolen but its power management left alot to be desired, 2-3 hours at max

Ok, I don't mind if you use macs for that. I just hate when people think that apple products have some kind of god power

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Ok, I don't mind if you use macs for that. I just hate when people think that apple products have some kind of god power

Nah, I used a Imac in college and it seemed nice and for $300, you just cant get the same build quality as an early Macbook Pro

[Weed man]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

Nah, I used a Imac in college and it seemed nice and for $300, you just cant get the same build quality as an early Macbook Pro

$300?

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

$300?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-15-MacBook-Pro-2-4ghz-Dual-Core-i5-MC371LL-A-Upgraded-to-8gb-RAM-500gb-HD/322676298694?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

[Weed man]

Just now, SammyGoad said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-15-MacBook-Pro-2-4ghz-Dual-Core-i5-MC371LL-A-Upgraded-to-8gb-RAM-500gb-HD/322676298694?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

 Well you were lucky, for $300 that's a steal, but that's not new ya know, an i5 MacBook new today with 128gbs of storage would be 2k

[Weed man]

Just now, Weed man said:

 Well you were lucky, for $300 that's a steal, but that's not new ya know, an i5 MacBook new today with 128gbs of storage would be 2k

Well actually that things from 2010 so I really don't know what you are trying to say here

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Well actually that things from 2010 so I really don't know what you are trying to say here

The only real difference is the processor, the 520M is a hyper threaded dual core that boosts to 3ghz...just like the current Macbook, I know ipc is better but im not a video editor and this processor can stream 4k and do steam link for gaming

[Weed man]

2 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

The only real difference is the processor, the 520M is a hyper threaded dual core that boosts to 3ghz...just like the current Macbook, I know ipc is better but im not a video editor and this processor can stream 4k and do steam link for gaming

Well What do you mean hyperthreaded its a dual core

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Well What do you mean hyperthreaded its a dual core

So, Hyperthreading means twice as many threads as cores, this machine has 2 cores and 4 threads, making it operate as if it had 4 cores, it saves on power and improves performance ;3

[Weed man]

2 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

So, Hyperthreading means twice as many threads as cores, this machine has 2 cores and 4 threads, making it operate as if it had 4 cores, it saves on power and improves performance ;3

Yes I know what it is just had a hard time finding that

[SammyGoad]

Just now, Weed man said:

Yes I know what it is just had a hard time finding that

if you stopped smokin so much weed....

 

[Weed man]

4 minutes ago, SammyGoad said:

if you stopped smokin so much weed....

 

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