saving my mpb mid 2012

Run DriveDX to check the health of your hard drive. If DriveDX reports the drive as good, then post a screenshot of all the "Health Indicators" as they may provide some clues anyway.

The 13" non-Retina model is still officially supported by Apple since they were still selling units up until a year ago. The hard drive cable on the non-Retina 13" model had a high rate of failure. You can test for this by removing the drive and connect it externally using a USB adapter/dock/enclosure and doing an Option Boot.

The hard drive cable on this laptop is known to have a high failure rate and could be causing problems. Post screenshots of all the "Health Indicators" from DriveDX for both drives as these attributes may provide details on any issues with the hardware. Just because the drive shows as healthy doesn't mean these attributes won't provide some useful informaton.

Is your SSD's firmware up to date? DriveDX can show you the current firmware revision.

Is TRIM enabled on your SSD?

Where is the SSD installed? In the hard drive bay or the optical drive bay?

well, you shouldn't have to throw it away. You have run Etrecheck which is helpful. I don't know what you found, but Etrecheck can help point the way to stuff that might be causing you problems. You also might want to run Activity Monitor (found in Utilities) which can help pinpoint which applications/processes are eating up cpu time and ram and then stop them while they are happening, at least for today. Also, under system preferences, then Users/Groups, check login items. If there is anything starting up when you login to your MacBook Pro and you don't want it to, that's where to stop it, or remove it entirely. You could also check your home folder. Go to your main hard drive, then under Users, then go to "yourname" which looks like a house. Click on that. Under Finder, click on Go, I think it's the 4th column from the top. Then go to folder, and type in Library. This is kinda different from the System Library. in the bunch of folders that open up, go to Application Support and Preferences. This is where some of the Applications put stuff needed to run them, such as PPPmonitord, either that or Preferences. You'd need to delete that application, then go back into your User Library, using the steps I mentioned, and look for anything that stars with "PPPMonitord". If not needed, click and drag it to the trash, and check the Preferences folder. Do the same there. Now empty the trash and restart your MacBook Pro. If you have a lot of launch deamons, that's probably where they have built a nest or moved into a cave ( I don't know where exactly they like to live, cave, nest, or shack, but they are there for sure) . As for #1, the part about the firewire and ethernet ports getting hot. That may be a hardware problem, which means you may need to take it in to your local Apple Authorized Service Place, have them take a look and see what they say. I don't know if Apple has said officially that the the MacBook Pro 2012 is vintage/obsolete, but it may very well be. So that would mean that your local Apple store will not touch it, or have parts for it anymore, so they might not be able to help you. I'd also suggest resetting the smc/pmu and zapping the pram on it. How to do that will depend on if it has a removeable battery or not. Check out Apple's support page on Notebooks and resetting smc/pmu and zapping pram. It should tell you how to do it, no matter which model/year of MacBook Pro , and what it's supposed to do.

hope this helps you a bit

John B

matt_fack wrote:

Here's the EtreCheck report.

Thanks!

<EtreCheck report.log>

For one your disk is critically choked on low storage space:

disk1s1 - Macintosh HD 1000.00 GB (32.38 GB free)

How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

Giving full disk access would reveal more here.

Your battery (like you say) is amazing with a condition:Normal at 1525 (?) almost too good to be true.

I would be inclined to Try resetting the  SMC  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

for both thermal management and battery management and see if that condition report changes.

Your SSD seems to be running slow. The average read/write speed is just 55-63 MB/s on a 6Gb/s link.

You should also check your hard drive with DriveDX.

As for your second sentence: isn't that what I just did?

Yes, but I only saw the report for the SSD.

Any idea on how I could solve the speed-related problem of my SSD?

It's possible the hard drive cable is bad. The best way to check if this is the case is to remove the SSD and connect it externally using a USB adapter/dock/enclosure although I don't know how it will affect the Fusion drive. It is also possible the SSD is at fault. You could try letting the laptop sit at the Apple Boot Picker menu with an Option boot for several hours to let the SSD's internal garbage collection routines time to run which may help with performance.

Well DecetX has it's place DetectX https://sqwarq.com/detectx/ or Sqwarq Apps

SECURITY UTILITIES FOR YOUR MAC by a contributor here in the ASC Phil Stokes (Softwater)

The etrecheck has been developed further, more elegant and user friendly. This will give valuable insight about you entire configuration— much more comprehensive, as opposed to drilling down on your HD at the moment.

Give the etrecheck full disk access for the most insight—No personal information is include here.

Paint the big picture first.

I can add your PPPMonitord—

PPPMonitord.app is a companion application that belongs to ex. "surf stick".

Often these devices are sold by mobile carriers such as Vodafone, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon.

/Library/Application Support/ZTE/PPPMonitord.app

I've never heard of DetectX before. You need to run DriveDX found at this website:

https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx

matt_fack wrote:

Actually the info on my HD says that it has 160 GB of free space and 130 GB that could be freed.

It has full disk access, just updated.

What are you saying here, instead of posting a new report you just replaced the old report(?) That is confusing in itself and we lost any comparison.

Do you have two drives in the 2012 ? is it set up as a fusion drive?

I now see disk1s1 - Macintosh HD 1000.00 GB (30.01 GB free)