

If you want to make the noise go away, you'll need to open up the back casing by undoing the 10 screws on the back. Because I have the SSD, I don't really worry about it overheating much, but the noise is a bit annoying. The repair went very well, but after I had OS X 10.6.8 reinstalled, I heard a quieter sound than my failing HD, and it turned out to be the fan. In doing this, I finally got to see what it looks like inside of my computer, and it was a lot dirtier than I had expected. I was out of warranty, as I found out when I took it into the Apple Store, and they told me to order an SSD and switch it out with the old HD at home.


I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 13", and I recently had some trouble with the hard drive, to the point where I had to buy a new solid state drive. I plan on scooping up more old macbook pros as I see them being collectable in the future.(If you want the simple answer, just skip the first paragraph.) this platform was probably one of the best ever made and it's unfortunate the apple has turned off a lot of clients with the bullshit designs of their newer macbooks.

I am really happy with my 7 year old macbook pro. I found a 16gb ram kit from samsung on ebay for about $65 which I will eventually get installed. running raid zero on these macbook pros has shown read/write speeds at nearly 1GB/sec - which is stupid fast if you ask me. she wanted to keep her ssd so I went ahead and installed a 1tb ssd from crucial ($130) and I removed the optical drive to make room for a future second 1tb ssd which I will run in raid zero. Anyhow, the 2011 macbook pro I inherited came with 8gb ram installed and a 240gb ssd. (Good job apple) So she ended up buying a badass laptop from MSI. she was going to buy a new macbook pro but was turned off with how the components are soldered to the mfking logic board. I recently inherited my g/fs 13" 2011 macbook pro.
