they charge $400 extra for a 1tb ssd drive. buy a refurb, possibly a 4.0ghz, give or take, i7, with either a 1tb fusion drive, or, a 256ssd drive(which means i may need an external hd if i go the ssd route. have unitek, an authorized apple service center add a 1tb internal ssd for $500.2. note that when i run disk utility, it shows that it is fine.i'm into the mode now that i'm going to do one of the following: 1. the only thing i haven't done is to erase it, install high sierra and add apps one at a time. note that i did the restore and the recovery route also. it boots up sometimes and other times i have to use an external as the boot. i then migrated the rest of my files onto it. ago.i erased the drive and reinstalled high sierra. note that i had a new logic board installed 2yrs. Just wondering how much longer I could expect my current MBP to last with the drive replaced, and whether it's worth the cost of replacement at all? I'm not really willing to spend hundreds of pounds to fix the current one if it's just going to die again in 6 months.Ģ009 imac 27' hard drive problems the hard drive works sometimes and not others. I'm not really willing to dig out a screwdriver and do it myself although that's maybe just laziness on my part.

I've also read across a few forums that replacing the drive would only really be worth it if I upgraded to an SSD rather than another HDD, which I assume would bump up the repair cost even more.

Essentially I am now weighing up the cost of replacing the hard drive vs buying a replacement Mac.Īccording to Apple the cost of replacing the HDD (as well as the battery which is also on it's last legs) is about £320, whereas I could probably purchase a similar Macbook for around £900-1000 with a student discount. I also know it is nothing to do with the cable as I already had that issue previously and got it replaced. Frankly I'm a bit disappointed that this has happened after only 4 and a half years of ownership (I purchased in mid 2014).

It turns out my 500GB HDD drive is dead and needs to be replaced. I've had some problems booting my Macbook Pro recently (it's a 13' Mid-2012) and after many discussions with Apple Support, I backed up all my files to and booted from an external drive, reinstalled OS X and upgraded to Mojave before migrating all my data back over, and still had the problem persist.

Imac 2009 hard drive replacement