2012 MacBookPro SSD upgrade

a) I’ve been recommending Crucial Tech and OWC (macsales) almost exclusively because their tech and customer support are excellent and the products are good.

b) A few years back I used WinClone to backup my Windows partition and it worked wonderfully. The WinClone web site contains instructions for how to proceed

c) After cloning the contents of both your Win and Mac partitions to the new drive some will have to be reserialized and some won’t. I had to call Microsoft tech support for my Windows activation - it was automated and painless.

d) you may notice a small change in battery life but unless your battery is showing the service warning, don’t bother.

There are many different form factors, many different types, and most are not compatible with the Mac you specified.

I would like to have a cheaper one as well, but if the Vendor does not say it will work perfectly, that is not really an option.

The splash page for the 2TB drive shows options for smaller drives at lower prices. I suggest that if you buy their enclosure as well, the old drive will fit in it as a "Utility" drive for future use.

The enclosure will allow you to install MacOS and boot from the drive and set it up completely Before you do any surgery. Then any problems of transplanting "known good" drive inside are caused by surgery, not by a million software issues.

i looked at 2012 and forgot that there were both retina and non retina models that year. Check out this site OWC’s upgrade. OWC is the rare supplier of 2012 to 2015 SSD upgrades.

Crucial is very conservative. They also rely on a database of what sales "stick" rather than having a lab full or Macs.

OWC has a lab full of Macs, and can tell you what can be upgraded because they either tired it or developed it.

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Standard Storage:256 GB SSDStd. Storage Speed:390/440 MB/s*

Details:This model has 256 GB of flash storage rather than a hard drive. As originally introduced on June 11, 2012, Apple did not even offer a larger capacity storage option via custom configuration. However, starting on August 2, 2012, Apple added the option of 512 GB or 768 GB of storage for an additional US$500 or US$1000, respectively.

*Third-party tests using the Blackmagic benchmark report write speeds of 390 MB/s and read speeds of 440 MB/s.

Apple does not intend for one to upgrade the SSD after purchase, however it is quite possible.

Also see: How do you upgrade or replace the storage in the Retina Display-equipped "Mid-2012" MacBook Pro models? Is it even possible?

In the US (and many other countries), site sponsor Other World Computing sells storage upgrades for this MacBook Pro.

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