Bits & Bytes: Larry O’Connor, Founder of OWC & MacSales.com answers: “Why SSD internal drives?”
June 9, 2016
We heard a rumor that internal SSD drives run too hot for our computers and could possibly damage the logic board. Larry O’Connor, Founder of Other World Computing (OWC) and guru behind MacSales.com disagrees.
Part One of his interview defines the difference between SSD’s and HDD drives and gives a plausible argument for why it might be worth spending the extra bucks for the SSD solution:
Part Two discusses the rumored (actually not true) heat issues with SSD’s:
For more information about OWC and MacSales.com, navigate here to their website.
agree in principle, about heat of drives, however old MACBOOKS and running those computers at higher temps could possibly be causing some issues with worn, or it could be apple just trying to dodge the issue and saying that since you didn’t buy a new Macbook and upgraded it with an SSD they don’t want to admit any fault with an aftermarket modification.