Hi, I just inherited an old Macbook Pro, I think I might be facing some HDD bottleneck issues with Mountain Lion as it's currently running on a WD Scorpio Blue 5200RPM HDD. The laptop was running Mountain Lion flawlessly on a SSD before. But now the OSx is running quite laggy, even the 10.7.5 update of Lion is lagging whereas 10.7.4 was flawless. If I'm correct that it's a HDD bottleneck, I want to go ahead and invest in a SSD but to be sure of that, I need to test the waters first. If someone can lend me their SSD for a day or I could come over and test it out, it'd be of great help. Any help would be much appreciated. Kauffmann
The bottleneck is definitely the SSD. As for testing, Banik would be the best bet as he is close and always has a few lying idle theBanik If you need his number PM me.
One of my Force 3 SSDs is with mavihs, Shivam move your butt and give the SSD to Kauffman. I do need the SSD anyways in a few days/week.
Thanks for replying guys. I could have been sure that it's a fault of the HDD if I hadn't given the laptop for repair, even though it was totally unrelated to the HDD. I had got the GPU changed and some fan cables, though they could not be causing the laggy operation, I just want to be sure before I make the expense. I'll pick it up from Shivam soon. Thanks Banik, it's real nice of ya. The people who I got the GPU changed from put a sticker on one of the screws, so I'll have to go to their office and get the HDD installed. I'll try to get the work done in a day or two from the day I get the HDD. Thanks again. Btw guys, how much would a decent SSD cost? I just need to run the OS off it, I'll use my current 750GB WD Scorpio Blue for data storing purposes.
You can get a 120 gb between 6-8k. check out Flipkart mavihs has to move his butt for my keyboard also! Lol!
So my brother is sending me one of these - Newegg.com - OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) He'll be using USPS to send it, should he declare the value? It's a used product.
Tell him to fill a CN 22 form and stick it to the outside. Tell him to write used old hard Drive and value as 75 dollars and declare as gift on the form
@ kauffmann hey, you can come over if you want to test the SSD!!! planning to bench??? PS: just waiting on @ harryneopotter to help me get the SSD i've been looking for!!! will give it to you whenever we meet next!!!
