There are guides at
http://www.ifixit.com/
You can look through the steps it would take to see if your comfortable doing it yourself.
I have done many repairs on my MBP and they were pretty easy. just required patience.
You can look through the steps it would take to see if your comfortable doing it yourself.
I have done many repairs on my MBP and they were pretty easy. just required patience.
I'm thinking I might just get the standard drive and upgrade it aftermarket.
Yes, modern off-the-shelf SSDs in a normal package use SATA (what else would they use?).
They look exactly like your standard 2.5" drive, except without breathing holes and sometimes thinner with a spacer to reach normal 2.5" height.
To see what SSDs look like, just click around in Anandtech's storage articles category[0], just ignore PCI-E SSDs (they're a bit of a special case)