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I have a 15" MacBook Pro, a mid 2009 model. Works fine but could do better with an SDD upgrade. I did do a HD upgrade about 3 years ago and had to jumper a couple pins to slow the io of the drive, as it was causing kernel panics at the higher speed. Can my system support an SDD upgrade?