![]() ![]() If you can get the Crucial cheaper, that's fine with me. Did you check with OWC resellers in the UK? The cable is cheap (~US$18) available ( here) and easy to change, especaily when you are changing the drive anyway.ĮDIT: Just noticed you quoted prices in Pounds. Symptoms of a worn cable can mimic symptoms of a failing hard drive. After 3-5 years of the vibration of normal use and transport, the cable's insulation can chafe and expose the traces. The cable is, in fact, a thin flexible printed circuit board that suffers a circuitous routing over sharp edges on the chassis. Go for the 6Ģ) When servicing or changing drives in 2009-2012 MacBook Pros, best practice is to change the drive CABLE at the same time. Buying a 3GB/sec drive will leave a lot of performance on the table. The "Pro" Model has a longer warranty: ġ) Your MBP was the first to have a 6GB/sec SATA drive bus. On the other hand, every question I've asked OWC over the last 15 years received a useful response in 24 hours of less. It can take days to still not have a viable solution. Even if you buy directly from Samsung, you will find their support slow and not very helpful. ![]() It made the computer a pleasure to use again. On the other hand, we see very few issues posted about Crucial and OWC SSDs used in Macs. We see more issues than before with them. ![]() Samsung used to the the gold standard for SSD upgrades but that seems to have changed. ![]()
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