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500GB OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD Solid State Drive - 7mm Reviews

4.9 Rating 49 Reviews
Peter Karklins
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My mid-2011 iMac was running like a dog (spinning balloon wheel) and took minutes to load applications. Apple assured me the machine was running ok but before I turfed it I thought I’d try a 500GB OWC SSD. I installed it (bought the install kit as well) and now apps load in seconds and for all purposes its now a new machine. Upgrade yours now; you’ll love the difference. … and Macfixit are a very supportive company to deal with. Peter
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Posted 5 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Google Reviews webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under this Google Review page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the short link to the Google Reviews website under below: https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJkafLvSFd1moRGQSKVe-ISS8 Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 5 years ago
Once I got it working, this has made my aged secondary Macbook Pro 2010 so much faster to boot and operate. With a new battery it's like new. Very Happy. Installation was easy. However, with a computer as old as mine there were some issues. Firstly after the simple install, my computer couldn't see the new hard drive, so I had to reinstall the old one just to make sure it wasn't a motherboard issue. Tick, then installing the new HD again, it still couldn't see the new HD. I found a hack on the internet which I've now passed onto Macfix to include in future instructions. Open Terminal during the recovery start up. Type: diskutil list find the new HD then format it: diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ NewDisk /dev/ insert the name of the new disk between the < and > i.e The new disk was formatted and rebooted and was now listed on Disk Utility and I was then able to install the mac OS. Not too hard or complex and well worth the effort.
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Posted 5 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Google Reviews webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under this Google Review page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the short link to the Google Reviews website under below: https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJkafLvSFd1moRGQSKVe-ISS8 Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 5 years ago
Great product
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Posted 6 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Product Reviews webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under the Product Reviews page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the link to the Product Reviews website under the link below: https://productreview.com.au/p/macfixit-australia.html Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 6 years ago
This 500GB Solid State Hard Drive from Macfixit Australia fitted perfectly into my 2010 17" Macbook Pro and, given instructions on how to install it made it baby business for this old person to be up and running with a new lease of life in my machine . My laptop has never been sooo... fast, and reliable, thank you Macfixit.
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Posted 6 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Product Reviews webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under the Product Reviews page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the link to the Product Reviews website under the link below: https://productreview.com.au/p/macfixit-australia.html Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 6 years ago
Rodney Grant
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Fitted 3G SSD to 2007 iMac. Amazing improvement to performance. Just like a new computer. Easy to install following instructions on OWC website.
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Posted 6 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Product Review webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under this page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the link to the Product Review website under below: https://www.productreview.com.au/p/macfixit-australia.html Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 6 years ago
Taylor Scott
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Great product
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Posted 6 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Google Reviews webpage for us as well. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under this Google Review page and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the short link to the Google Reviews website under below: https://search.google.com/local/writereview?placeid=ChIJkafLvSFd1moRGQSKVe-ISS8 Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 6 years ago
Great service, every thing went exactly to plan. My 10 year old Mac is running like a dream.
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Posted 6 years ago
Thank you so much for your kind words and thank you for shopping with us! We're very happy to have you as a customer. My name is Robert, I am the owner of Macfixit Australia and I was hoping that if you had a little more time and if it was not too much trouble perhaps you could also leave a note of your positive experience under the Product Review website for us. We find that unless we ask our customers, we very rarely have any positive notes left under the review website and it certainly helps other potential customers in the decision making to determine if they should purchase from us. If you left your positive note I would very much appreciate it. Please find the link to the Product Reviews website under the link below: http://www.productreview.com.au/p/macfixit-australia.html Thank you for your time and we hope to see you in our store again soon.
Posted 6 years ago
The product is great, be careful to do your own research on other products needed to install in an iMac late 2009. A mounting bracket and thermal sensor are also needed and available through their website.
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Posted 6 years ago