Here are a few Benefits of Mac Hard Drive Replacement:
There are two primary reasons to upgrade your Mac hard drive: storage and performance. The first one is simple to understand. If your hard drive is constantly filling up and forcing you to offload or delete files, then you probably need a bigger drive. The second variable is much more complex and can, in fact, get quite complicated. The performance of your Mac can largely be improved by upgrading your RAM. However, the hard drive also plays a major role in the speed of various activities such as data access and startup times. The primary factors related to the speed of your Mac’s hard drive are RPM and cache size. Rotations per minute RPM refers to how fast your hard drive is spinning and directly correlates to how fast it can read and write data. Though there are plenty of arguments out there regarding how easy it is to be deceived by a drive’s RPM, they are all supremely technical in nature and sound like a foreign language to anyone not familiar with terms like IOPS and partial stroking. For the purposes of this article, we’ll assume that more RPMs equals higher performance. For example, a 7,200 RPM hard drive will perform better than a 5,400 RPM drive. The buffer cache refers to a temporary storage area that is used to enhance the drive’s performance. According to our technicians, when the computer requests data from the hard disk if that data is in the cache, there is a performance boost directly related to the speed of the cache. So generally speaking, the larger the buffer cache size, the better the performance of the drive. The information above is relevant for typical hard drives, meaning those that actually spin. The basic idea is that a disc full of positively and negatively charged area spins under a read/write device called a head. As with anything containing moving parts, these devices are quite prone to failure. In fact, these precariously spinning objects have one of the highest rates of failure of any component on your machine. It’s unfortunate that the part likely to die on your Mac first is the part holding all of your valuable data.