MacBook Pro mid 2012 upgrade help

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One for you computer tech guys.

I have a 2.9g i7 MacBook Pro mid 2012 and looking to upgrade. (Serial C1MKW5CGDTY4)

So the questions are

1. Which ram is best, looking at the 16g(2x8) of the hyperX 1600mhz (is this the fastest it will take ? )

2. Slightly more complicated this one, SSD, which one ? Is there really much difference, looking at these

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Any better/worse ?

3. Single SSD and leave cd drive, duel SSD running parallel or duel SSD running raid 0
(I understand the loss and it’s fine, I will use the 1t sata as a constant back-up)

If I go duel running raid, will 1tb work or will I need 2tb as I understand SSD’s need empty space.

All about speed for LR/PS and Prem Pro

Cheers
 
Whatever you get 16GB and SSD will be a big boost, but nothing will help it to connect a 4K screen if that may be consideration at any time in the near future...
 
LongLensPhotography said:
Whatever you get 16GB and SSD will be a big boost, but nothing will help it to connect a 4K screen if that may be consideration at any time in the near future...
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Thanks, very unlikely to use a 4K monitor, but thanks for the heads up

andrewc said:
I used the Crucial memory upgrade app to choose memory.
Fitted a Sandisk 1 TB SSD, and kept the DVD
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Cheers, any reason you only went single ?
 
I wanted to keep the DVD player for burning DVDs of images for customers and didn't want to cart about an external drive.

My internal drive has since packed up, so considering adding a second internal drive.
 
andrewc said:
I wanted to keep the DVD player for burning DVDs of images for customers and didn't want to cart about an external drive.

My internal drive has since packed up, so considering adding a second internal drive.
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Understand, part of me wants to keep it, but I haven’t used a cd drive in 5 plus years, but still got that “maybe one day” thing in my head

Is that the ssd you installed that packed up ? How old was it ?
 
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You can connect them to a 4K screen I connect my mid 2012 to my 65inch tv with no worries at all. Just need a thunderbolt to hdmi or serial output, or an hdmi to serial converter available on amazon..

Nice ram upgrade mine the 8gb version and keep debating an upgrade, but mine runs everything I want happily enough I keep putting it off.
 
Russdaz1 said:
You can connect them to a 4K screen I connect my mid 2012 to my 65inch tv with no worries at all. Just need a thunderbolt to hdmi or serial output, or an hdmi to serial converter available on amazon..
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There is no point if you can't get 4K resolution, unless you like blurry low res vision.
 
Does if you have Mavericks or newer via thunderbolt. My MacBook screen is broken so have to use external monitors!
 
Any input on the SSD side ?
 
I use external drives connected by a private WiFi network so my 500gig inside is fine so can’t help on that front.
 
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