Macbook pro ssd recommendations

hello people. I have a 2011 macbook pro 15" and i am not not happy with the responsiveness, the start up speed, and all. I have decided to install an ssd of 256GB and then 8GB ram.
Can i get recomendations on which one to buy please (the ssd).
Thank you

Crucial provides a wide range of alternatives for both RAM and SSD. Just select your MBP and it will show you compatible versions.
RAM: http://www.crucial.com/store/drammemory.aspx
SSD: http://www.crucial.com/store/ssd.aspx
However, you should research to find if you really need these upgrades.
Memory updates are useful when you're multitasking a lot applications. Also your operating system can cache frequently used applications/files into memory and decrease access-time of those applications/files. When you boot up your computer, it load operating system and startup application. Then it uses the rest of the memory to do this caching. It does this slowly, so that it won't disturb you by hard disk usage and slow your system down.
Hard drives are mature elements of computers. There are a lot of correction and fault-proofing going on behind the scene. SSD, however, is a new technology and there are couple of problems, such as lifespan, decreasing performance, so on and so fourth.

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You are not in MacBook Pro forum.
Yes, http://www.macsales.com/ssd has some options and video guide.
If it was me and it could take any off the shelf SSD I would probably choose a different brand.
For PCIe, there are other options I favor also.
Direct you to the proper forum for MacBook :
MacBook Series Forums
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Mac OS X Forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
This forum deals with a desktop/tower 65lb Mac Pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro

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Yeah I always forget about the sleepimage file. I turned that off a long time ago.
I have been running Lion for just over a year, and Mt Lion for part of that (Now back to Lion) and have never had this problem. As most Mac users don't. It is a glitch in the OS, is all I can think of.
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TANYA SABGA wrote:
ok i think upgrading myself makes the most senseas ive heard more good things about that. Now for the processor what difference does the 2.4GHz to the 2.5GHZ make, is it worth paying the extra $230 since that is not upgradeable?
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http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=9856FD01A5CA7304
HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591
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Hello everyone
My first post here !
I recently purchased a
HyperX 240GB SATA3 3K 2.5-inch Gaming SSD Drive
I am having some really weird issues trying to migrate OSX Mavericks to this SSD.
I cloned my HDD to the SDD I used a SATA docking station for this.
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Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
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