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

4.9 Rating 49 Reviews
Derek Christy
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This is the 2nd SSD I've bought from Macfixit. Installation was easy with well laid-out instructions provided - I used it in a Data Doubler Optical Bay in an older MacBook Pro to replace the dead Superdrive. The drive has increased the overall speed of the machine tremendously!
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Posted 7 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: 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 7 years ago
Excellent buy, hassle-free installation and will no doubt extend the useful life of the old MacBook!
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Posted 7 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 7 years ago
This has been the single most significant step to speed up an lld macbook pro - the difference is remarcable. If you are in any doubts - DO IT !!
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Posted 8 years ago
I replaced the original 160G 5200rpm drive in my MacBookPro 13" with this 480G SSD. Speed increase has been dramatic and saved me spending A$2k on a new machine. Well worth the money. Tip for anyone doing the same who does not have an external enclosure for the old drive: make a bootable USB drive before removing your old drive. Very clear article for El Capitan OS can be found at http://www.macworld.com/article/2981585/operating-systems/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-installer-drive.html
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Posted 8 years ago
Great product and great shopping experience!
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Posted 8 years ago
Imac now flys!
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Posted 8 years ago
Fantastic SSD, my old 2009 Mac is running like new. Highly recommend this as it will change your sluggish Mac to a faster performance.
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Posted 8 years ago
The drive shipped quickly and was easy to install easily into the data doubler and then the MacBook Pro following the simple instructions on Youtube. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the original HDD onto the new SSD and selected it as the startup disk and everything works!
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Posted 8 years ago