Your system has an older SATA connection standard! SATA I (1.5 Gbps) there are very few SATA SSDs that support this older data rate. Samsung SSDs is all I would use!
But before we can move forward we need to have a bootable external drive setup with the needed OS installed. Here you’ll need a 32GB (or larger) USB thumb drive.
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But before we can do this we need to figure out what your system can support for an OS, this gets tricky! This is your systems series [https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1176|A1176] which severely limits you to OS-X Lion 10.7.5 as the highest this series will support.
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But before we can do this we need to figure out what your system can support for an OS, this gets tricky! This is your systems series [link|https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1176|A1176] which severely limits you to OS-X Lion 10.7.5 as the highest this series will support.
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So… What is your expectation? This series RAM will limit you 4GB. You face some hurdles here.
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This series RAM will also limit you (4GB).
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So… You face some hurdles here. What is your expectation?
Let’s try this again…
Your system has an older SATA connection standard! SATA I (1.5 Gbps) there are very few SATA SSDs that support this older data rate. Samsung SSDs is all I would use!
But before we can move forward we need to have a bootable external drive setup with the needed OS installed. Here you’ll need a 32GB (or larger) USB thumb drive.
But before we can do this we need to figure out what your system can support for an OS, this gets tricky! This is your systems series [https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1176|A1176] which severely limits you to OS-X Lion 10.7.5 as the highest this series will support.
So… What is your expectation? This series RAM will limit you 4GB. You face some hurdles here.