re: #92 freetoken

Finally got a SSD for my old Mac… I hope I successfully move the system drive info correctly.

It bothers me for some reason that the industry pushed the acronym “SSD”. There is no “D”rive. It’s just flash memory mated to a data interface to plug into computers so to as allow backwards compatibility.

You’re going to be pleased/shocked with the performance gain.

I had a 2010 iMac and still have a 2010 MacBook Pro where I swapped out their respective optical drives for SSDs. Massive speed gains. Don’t have the numbers handy, but boot times alone decreased significantly.

I’m currently using my dad’s 2013 iMac, where the boot drive is a SSD in a USB3 external case. Same deal: even with the overhead of being an external drive, it still boots faster than the internal mechanical one.

I haven’t dealt with the hybrid drives where Apple puts the OS on the SSD portion of the drive, but I’d imagine that’s a similar story.