You what to look for a Seagate ST1000LM014 SSHD You don't want the newer FireCude version! It is a fixed speed drive unlike this one which will run at the slower SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) speed your system runs at. SU installed the MBP Software Update before it would even show this firmware update. But we have a small wrinkle here, the drive you need is no longer being made so you'll need to look for one on eBay or Amazon. As always, rely on Software Update to determine your machines eligibility for this, or any, update. As it turns out there are hybrid drives (SSHD) which have a deep cache SSD to speed things up. So what to do? The easiest thing here once you've maxed the physical RAM is to upgrade your drive to a larger unit. So if your system is low on free space you won't have that much space for the virtual RAM in addition over time HDD's tend to get fragmented so the free space maybe heavily scattered across the drive which slows access. When your system is running lean on RAM it will leverage the drive as virtual RAM. There is a bit of symbiosis between RAM & drives.
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