I followed Jeff's advice (replace the optical drive with a SSD, as I have exactly the same Mac) and decided to order the Samsung 830 (128Gb) SSD at Amazon. I then started to replace the drives, with ...

Now, at the end of 2013, Apple definitely had a point in asserting that the optical drive could be done without—especially when a USB optical drive can now be purchased for under $35—and an ...

The MacBook Pro’s hard drive is not a user-installable part, so you won’t find instructions on Apple’s support site. And Hitachi doesn’t include computer-specific installation instructions.

It's a fact that no one uses optical drives anymore and so why not replace the one in your late-model MBP with something a bit more useful like an SSD. It doesn't really seem that hard as long you ...

YouTube/Matt Gonzalez After that, I simply unscrewed the bottom of my MacBook Pro, took the old hard drive out, put the SSD in, and screwed the lid back on (check out a good YouTube tutorial here).

Recently I purchased a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD to use in my 13″ mid 2010 Macbook Pro (running OS version 10.12.2, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) and the drive would not mount ...

Apple's MacBook Pro has only one hard-drive slot, but you can replace the optical drive with a bracket to hold another hard drive, and in doing so put a small and cheaper SSD in for a boot drive ...

First, you will need an OWC Aura Pro Express SSD drive, your MacBook Air, an external USB 2.0 backup drive, and pentalobe and T5 torx drivers (included with the Aura Pro Express).

The Aura Pro NT High-Performance NVMe SSD is an aftermarket drive upgrade for non-Touch Bar 13-inch MacBook Pro devices made between 2016 and 2017. Since that model is up to five years old now ...

But with the few changes Apple did make, the 17-inch MacBook Pro has become a better value. First, the stock processor is now a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo, up slightly from the previous model’s 2.66GHz ...