MyService has announced a new 512GB (480GB usable) Solid State Drive upgrade for the MacBook and MacBook Pro. These new drives by Other World Computing (OWC) are the largest laptop SSD drives available.
Solid State Drives (also known as SSDs) have a number of advantages. With no moving parts, they are extremely reliable. Compared to mechanical hard drives they are quieter, lighter, use less power and generate less heat, all positives for any laptop. All significant, but the real advantage is performance. Solid State Drives can read data at speeds many times faster than traditional hard drives because there are no spinning parts. Any data, stored anywhere on the drive, can be accessed at any time. Programs start up faster, videos and images load faster, and overall, your Mac will feel remarkably faster.
MyService takes care of all the shipping and delivers a custom laptop shipping container straight to your door. Once your Mac arrives at MyService, an Apple Certified technician will install the new drive and transfer the data over from your old drive. If your old hard drive is failing, a new operating system is installed. All drives feature a 3 year warranty.
Since MyService is an Apple Authorized Service Provider, the 480GB SSD upgrade will not void your Apple warranty. After the service is completed, your laptop is cleaned, tested and sent back to you, along with your old drive. All services are completed within 24 hours of arrival.
Prices (all prices include shipping and installation):
• 120GB Solid State Drive – $379
• 240GB Solid State Drive – $699
• 480GB Solid State Drive – $1799
More info:
MacBook Upgrades
480GB MacBook Pro Upgrades
And all for the low, low cost of the GDP of a small banana republic.
“simply ship to us, in the provided self-addressed box, your 1st born OR an arm-leg, your choice! so easy!”
$1800 for the 480GB drive…OUCH!
Agreed considering you can buy a MBP with 512GB SSD from Apple for an additional $1300.
“Compared to mechanical hard drives they are quieter, ”
Duh! They’re completely silent.
-jcr
How about $500 for a 80mb drive?
Wow! that was a lot of storage back then.
The first hard drive I purchased for my company cost $1,895.00. It went into a Mac II. The hard drive was 80 meg.
I think I’ll just buy a second MacBook Pro and double my storage that way. It’s cheaper.
I’m with this guy!
Yah know, someday not so far away a 500Gb SSD will be something like $100. I really hate the period of time from a new technology introduction and its attendant super high price to the ambiquitous day they are inexpensively priced and everywhere in volume. I remember when my first DVD-R burner cost $1200. And now they’re less than $100. My first dedicated GPS was $450 and now they’re something like $150. This $1600 500Gb price for an SSD drive will not stand, especially if Apple wants to sell all new Mac Books and Mac Book Pros with SSD’s. They should buy their own SSD factory. Definitely the future.
Sigh.. on MacBooks and new unibodies hard drive is user replaceable and wouldn’t void the warranty anyway. I get it, but fear mongering warranty loss is a sad selling point.
and it will only get cheaper…
actually, right now the disk drive companies are suffering…
At some point, SSD will become larger AND cheaper than “hard” drive. “Solid state” (no moving parts) will ultimately become cheaper to make (and more miniaturized) than something highly mechanical.
BUT that day is certainly NOT today. An equivalent-size 2.5-inch hard drive at Newegg costs about $60. That doesn’t include the service to ship the MacBook and install it, but still… I wonder how long the hard drive makers can keep going higher in capacity for less money. There are 3TB drives in the 3.5-inch size now, and some of the older 2TB models are now well below $100. For now, it’s SSD performance and ruggedness -VS- HD cost per GB and overall capacity.
There’s much to be said for being slightly behind the tech curve.
Pricing is all about volume. You can get 16GB flash memory for $20. That price is way cheaper than 2 years ago.
We need all the first adopters to pay the excessive prices to cover the initial R&D and manufacturing costs. Then next year or so the price will start to go down.
Can’t I just pay next year’s price now?
What I want is a combo drive – 64 GB SSD (even 32GB would do) + 750 GB standard HD.
Put OS and apps on the SSD along with documents, and use the HD for media files. Could even have some smarts in it to have a desktop on the SSD for files in use, then automagically move them to HD if not on a “last used” basis.
Get the best of both worlds. BTW – this would significantly reduce power consumption since there would be a lot less HD access.
I wonder what your battery life goes to with an SSD. Anyone have any idea?
If I had the bucks to buy an SSD I think I would put a feature movie on the HD and run it until the battery died as a before/after test.
It goes down. More power efficient. Ever wonder how the iPad and MacBook air last so long? (powerwise =P haha)
Get this hybrid drive instead. 500GB 7200 RPM w/ 4GB SSD.
Around 120 or so. I put one in my MBP and it was much more snappy. Here is the model number.
Seagate ST95005620AS Momentus XT 500GB Solid State Hybrid Drive
It’s too expensive.