Make sure you click on the green ‘pro’ tab to get the Mercury ‘Pro’ 6G drive. I’d go for the best, the OWC Mercury Pro 6G drive, simply because installation process is not simple so it’s worth getting the most reliable drive you can. ( See this article) They have a few models. Back when there were problems with TRIM support it was OWC who came out and helped Apple readers with some information. The first place I would recommend is OWC, their website is. Generally you can just get a drive the same size as the one you already have, but if your drive is really full with not much free space it might be worth going to a bigger size. The graph next to the hard drive shows me that my hard drive is approximately half full. (It says ‘Solid State SATA’ because I have just recently upgraded to a 1TB SSD drive.) This tells me (on the left) that my current hard drive is 1 TB. Go to the tab that says ‘Storage’ and you will see a window that looks like this: Work out what size drive you need.Ĭlick on your Apple menu on the top left of your desktop and select ‘About This Mac’. So even though any SSD drive will work at the moment, I would recommend sticking with a Crucial or OWC drive. Crucial and OWC work hard at retaining compatibility with Apple computers.Ĭrucial make a drive called the MX300 and OWC make a series of drives called Mercury. This has all been fixed up now, but back then it was the Crucial and OWC drives that kept working when other’s stopped working. You will need to format them to Macintosh format using the Macintosh OS X disk utility.īut… there have been problems in the past when Apple changed the way it did things (with TRIM) that meant some SSD drives did not work for a while. Technically any SSD drive will work on a Macintosh computer. Toshiba, OWC, Crucial, Samsung, Transcend, Sandisk. If you have a macbook or a Mac Mini what you need is 2.5″ SATA Drive.

What’s the best SSD drive for an Apple computer? It’s like having a very very fast very very big thumb drive. They store data on a chip rather than on a spinning disk. There are two problems with so many moving parts: (1) it slows everything down, and (2) eventually one of these parts will seize up or break and the drive will fail. There is also a ‘head’ that moves across the spinning disk to read the data (like an old record player). Traditional hard drives have a spinning disk inside. Otherwise you can have a go at installing one yourself. If you have an older one that you’d like to upgrade you should be able to take your Macintosh computer to a local dealer and have them install an SSD drive. All MacBooks now come standard with an SSD drive. I can’t think of any reason why you should not be using one. Now SSD drives have dropped dramatically in price and you can just replace your existing drive with an SSD one.

Back then SSD drives were expensive and the whole process I described was a bit complicated. In 2015 I wrote this post about installing an SSD drive.

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