You would need to close all other applications just to make it possible to do a video call, and it still lagged even after that.
Before any of the upgrades, the CPU fan was constantly noisy whenever running any application, making it impossible to use. replacing the DVD drive with a second disk) bear in mind that the two SATA ports are of different speeds in the mid-2010 MBP. I own a Macbook Pro Mid 2010 (Macbook 7,1) which has gone through several upgrades. On an SSD, again, its not so critical, but what you want to avoid is needing space for swap and not having it. Again, on a spinner, you want to avoid fragmentation on those three because of the rotational/traverse latencies. A TheNatural2020 product 1 x HDD/SSD caddy for Apple MacBook/Macbook Pro - replaces your SuperDrive - for an additional 2.5' SATA HDD or SSD - SATA III 6.0 Gbit/s 1 x External slot-in USB 2. One final point, if using a data-doubler or similar (i.e. 2) The operating system needs some space on the drive for scratch space, cache and swap space. And unless you're doing some heavy video editing or really disk-heavy work, I'd suggest the performance differences won't be noticed. Sure it was nice having ~400MB/s+ (not sure what speed it actually ran at) but I didn't do a lot of work that truly utilised the top-speed of the SSD, so the performance differences were pretty moot. For me, the top-end drive speed difference didn't mean all that much, because primarily I was after the low seek speeds. Apple MacBook Pro Z0GP/4 (Core i7 620M 2660 Mhz/17'/1920x1200/8192Mb/512Gb SSD/DVD-RW/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/MacOS X). Heres the better cable: MacBook Pro 13' Unibody (Mid 2012) Hard Drive Cable - Apple P/N 923-0104.
#SSD HARD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 SERIES#
I also found some vendors saying that (at the time) the Intel 330s were seeing less RAs than some other similarly priced brands I was looking at this may or may not be the case right now, and I was only able to compare a few brands. Follow this IFIXIT guide to take your old drive out and put in the new SSD in, as well as replace the drives SATA cable as well as thins series has a known issue with them: MacBook Pro 13' Unibody Mid 2010 Hard Drive Cable Replacement. I found people saying they'd successfully used the Intels (and well most brands actually).
#SSD HARD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO MID 2010 UPGRADE#
Personally I looked around for info on the most reliable SSDs rather than the fastest. INDMEM NVMe PCle SSD 512GB 3D TLC Flash Hard Drive with Tools for Upgrade 2016 2017 13' MacBook PRO A1708EMC 2978/3164 Non-Touch Bar Models(Late 2016-Mid 2017 Year) 4.3 out of 5 stars 27 179.99 179. It worked for me, and it's TRIM compatible but you need to use TRIM Enabler or similar to turn it on. For this how-to, we replaced the hard drive on a 15-inch MacBook Pro (non-Retina) from 2012 with a 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD from OWC, which costs 579. The performance difference (compared to stock 500GB HDD) was amazing. I put an Intel 330 series SSD in my mid-2010 MBP.