Adding a SSD drive to a MacBook

[kjoke]

When do you think its needed? I have the simplest mac and feel as time goes by I can add new things into it. Just don't know if I need it, or if the difference from HDD to SSD is that significant in my case.

[Patman]

When do you think its needed? I have the simplest mac and feel as time goes by I can add new things into it. Just don't know if I need it, or if the difference from HDD to SSD is that significant in my case.

The change from HDD to SSD is probably the biggest performance booster in every day use. Program load times and responsiveness should greatly improve.
In a mac book a decent hybrid drive would also work wonders, the HDD in the older mac books are just plain slow.

So yes a SSD is in my opinion the best upgrade you can do.

[dbroncos78087]

Are you replacing the HDD with a SSD? Because if so you will need to install your OS onto the new drive. But you should be fine with the hardware inside of computer since they both use SATA connections.

[kjoke]

The change from HDD to SSD is probably the biggest performance booster in every day use. Program load times and responsiveness should greatly improve.
In a mac book a decent hybrid drive would also work wonders, the HDD in the older mac books are just plain slow.

So yes a SSD is in my opinion the best upgrade you can do.

How does it work if I decide to get run bootcamp? I'd probably get the 120gb ssd drive, and would have to allocate around half for microsoft, when with my current HDD I can allocate around 300 to 350gb

[kjoke]

Are you replacing the HDD with a SSD? Because if so you will need to install your OS onto the new drive. But you should be fine with the hardware inside of computer since they both use SATA connections.

I'm horrible with computer hardware, can I actually have both?

[FOBolous]

how do you know if your computer has a HDD or SDD?

[kjoke]

how do you know if your computer has a HDD or SDD?

With the Mac it tells you which Mac you bought

[dbroncos78087]

Kjoke: some computers let you have two. Dell for instance will sell you a caddy to put a 2nd HDD/SSD where your CD drive would be.

Fob: all computer will tell you, usually if you have a large capacity you had a HDD and if its smaller its probably a SSD.

[FOBolous]

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[Patman]

How does it work if I decide to get run bootcamp? I'd probably get the 120gb ssd drive, and would have to allocate around half for microsoft, when with my current HDD I can allocate around 300 to 350gb

If you want to run a bootcamp setup anything under 240GB will be a huge pain. If you need the space I would look for a hybrid drive, these are drives that use a small SSD to cache data. A 500 GB drive like that should cost around 90$ according to newegg. It won't give you the speed of an SSD but it still is a huge performance upgrade over a normal HDD.