That's about $2 per year on the price of these Neptune SSD's. That's because the more flash nand to write too, the long the endurance or life expectancy.

Far out lasting the life of the expectancy of the mac.Ī 256gb SSD will endure twice that at over 160 years.Ī 500gb SSD will endure over 300 years at 5gb write per day. writes per day a 120gb SSD will endure over 80 years. I don't store music or movies on my SSD'sĪt 5gb. However I have never run out of disk space on a 120gb. network drive and USB drive for off-loading large files or backups. I have Garage band, iMovie, iWork suite, MS Office 2011, Adobe, and many more apps installed. in personal docs and files still leaves me with about 30gb FREE. appears to be more than enough for my boot drives even though I have many apps installed and about 20gb. OWC has a sale on Certified Mac compliant SSD from $35.Ī Mac compatible SSD with a 3 year warranty for $35 is great.ġ20gb. Samsung 860 EVO 1TB M.2 SATA SSD/Solid State Drive.

It has 2.5Ghz Dual Core Intel i5 can I upgrade the RAM and HDD to SSD with the following below SSD. So you need to purchase from a reputable source. I have a similar Macbook Pro purchased in 2015. At first they did not want to RMA it but later agreed to RMA it. However I did RMA one once to Samsung and they told me it was a 'fake' 'counterfeit' I have one in my MBP mid-2012 and it appears to be working okay so far.

Macbook pro 13 mid 2012 hdd upgrade