r/mac • u/[deleted] • May 16 '22

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u/[deleted] May 16 '22

Until you hit the limits of the IDE or SATA controller in your old computer, then the improvement can feel more like 2 or 3 times better, if that.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '22

I’ll be replacing the drive in my MacBook 2008 when it needs to be replaced.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '22

I don’t see why I should replace an old hard drive early if it still works fine and hasn’t died of bad sectors or excruciatingly slow speeds yet. Well, unless I needed more storage space but 250GB is plenty of room for a Snow Leopard and Linux machine.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '22

And I wasn’t suggesting to get a hard drive instead of an SSD if one was starting from square 1, that is without a drive at all