Mid 2012 MBA storage upgrade

McGrath5

I have a mid 2012 MBA 11" model, the 128gb on board memory really does not cut it for me anymore. I have to carry around an external HDD at the moment, which I find to be a bit of a pain.

I've seen some youtube videos of the process of swapping out the memory, but I have found locating a reputable seller quite difficult.

Preferably I would like to bump the storage up to 512gb, does anybody know of any decent stores, be it online or B&M to purchase?

whiterebel

McGrath5 wrote: »

I have a mid 2012 MBA 11" model, the 128gb on board memory really does not cut it for me anymore. I have to carry around an external HDD at the moment, which I find to be a bit of a pain.

I've seen some youtube videos of the process of swapping out the memory, but I have found locating a reputable seller quite difficult.

Preferably I would like to bump the storage up to 512gb, does anybody know of any decent stores, be it online or B&M to purchase?

I have the 13" model and did this only Monday. I ordered a 240GB Transcend kit from Amazon in the UK. I got a soiled outer packaging one for £118. Includes a caddy, so you put in your new HD into the caddy, make a restore copy of your MBA HD onto it using Disk Utility, then swap out the 2 drives. You then have a 128GB external drive which goes at USB3 speeds. Also includes screw drivers, USB3 cable etc. Physically removing and replacing the HDs was a 5 minute job.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JKCHNOU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

McGrath5

Cheers Whiterebel, Ill more than likely end up going with something like that.

osnola ibax

I bought the OWC 240 gb drive for my Mac book air mid 2011. It was only 64gb. No problems, slightly quicker drive as well

shanec1928

Or this plus a large SD card
http://store.apple.com/ie/product/HF156ZM/B/nifty-drives-minidrive-for-macbook-air?fnode=a53968a491bc6bfd0effc2203005a8d321efc297bbaecedd5ee1bd0cf0ea479170a44c4c579812448a1fe9444d21813ef9c70542b7c3679e6b795d399b3d22aa216d5ca3526d0a5b4e5bf9d39a298cf53f74c513960db8f8917ce212e9db1876c8cfaa5a17c70a1f249f01b0ed51bfc9

osnola ibax

There is no sd card slot on 11"MacBook air. Also, read write speeds are not going to be as good as an ssd.

I bought a128 gb usb stick thinking that would supplement the 64gb hard drive well, but watching movies from it etc just want up to scratch.

Eventually ended up replacing the ssd I should have done that in the first place tbh, don't know myself now.

You know you can clone the drive in Disk Utility, forget how but it's fairly simple afaicr. You will need an external caddy for the old drive though or new drive depending on how you do it. You have 2 options.

1. Put new drive in external caddy, format and copy internal drive to it, then install.

2. Install new drive, format, put old drive in caddy and copy over

Deep Thought

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JKCHNOU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/QUOTE]

they even have a 480GB one...cool

whiterebel

Deep Thought wrote: »

they even have a 480GB one...cool

And a 960GB for the stupendously rich.....:)