05-25-2017, 09:54 AM
Are SSD's not cheap enough? Grab thee a PCIe card and throw some SS boot storage at the tower. Way fast. Hybrids are faster than regular spinnies, and may make sense for the "old" MBP, depending on what the definition of "is", er, "old" is. Do some research, as some of those 2.5" hybrids have serious reliability issues (regardless of warranty), so even w/ a good warranty, there may be some risk of down time. The FireCuda being fairly new, may prove to be OK, just not enough data available yet (hopes are high, here, too).
Realistically, the FC's seem to get about 1.5 - 2X the performance of a spinnie, or about 35 - 40% of the performance of a decent SSD on a full speed SATA bus. So if your "old" MBP is old enough to only have SATA I bus speed, then that FireCuda makes all kinds of sense; if "old" is SATA II or III, then a real SSD is likely a better friend.
Good luck.
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Realistically, the FC's seem to get about 1.5 - 2X the performance of a spinnie, or about 35 - 40% of the performance of a decent SSD on a full speed SATA bus. So if your "old" MBP is old enough to only have SATA I bus speed, then that FireCuda makes all kinds of sense; if "old" is SATA II or III, then a real SSD is likely a better friend.
Good luck.
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