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Migrating from My Mac Pro 2012 to a new Mac Pro 2019

I've done this before a while ago and just want to make sure of a few things before I start this.


My mac Pro 2012 has 4 internal Hard Drives


My new Mac Pro 2019 comes with a 2TB drive but I paid extra for the Pegasus J2i so my first job unless I'm wrong is to remove 3 hardrives from my 2012 and place them in the Pegasus ( it came with an 8TB drive so the sled will now have 4 HD's. place them in the new Mac Pro.


Is the hard drive on my new Mac Pro already have an OS on it?


Second I don't believe my Mac Pro 2012 has a thunderbolt port so should I migrate thru firewire?


Third, I need the entire contents of the main hard drive from my 2012 to copy to the main HD of the MBP 2019 but it has High Sierra as the OS. How do I proceed? Do I migrate the entire drive to the New MBP 2019 and then upgrade to Catalina?


Anyone? Plz advize as I want to do this once and the right way.


RD

Mac Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on May 19, 2020 7:36 AM

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User profile for user: Grant Bennet-Alder
Grant Bennet-Alder
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Posted on May 19, 2020 8:13 AM

j2i holds at most TWO 3.5-in form factor drives.


that means you can have the 8TB and any additional ONE installed at anyone time.


The MacOS in the new Mac Pro 2019 is on a two-card SSD set, wired to the T2 chip and so completely proprietary you don't even want to THINK about disturbing it.


Also, you can NOT replace the "shipped-in-the-box" MacOS on that new drive with anything -- it has custom Drivers for the new model Mac Pro.


Think about Migration Assistant and its cousin, Setup Assistant.

This software is prepared to copy your files and your added Applications and your settings to your new Mac.




as for the source of the copy, you can use the original drives still mounted in the old Mac, if still operational, or a Time machine backup, or move a drive to an external enclosure. the Firewire adapter that is available has a ThunderBolt-2 connector on the other end, so you need to add $$$ for a Thunderbolt-3 <--> TthunderBolt-2 AND cable to make that setup "go".


as for the connection medium, you can use an external drive enclosure, or you can copy across your home Network, it is just really really slow. Ethernet, especially Gigabit Ethernet, can speed that up quite a bit.


You can always copy stray files that got missed over later, manually.

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Grant Bennet-Alder
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May 19, 2020 8:13 AM in response to dagwaremedia

j2i holds at most TWO 3.5-in form factor drives.


that means you can have the 8TB and any additional ONE installed at anyone time.


The MacOS in the new Mac Pro 2019 is on a two-card SSD set, wired to the T2 chip and so completely proprietary you don't even want to THINK about disturbing it.


Also, you can NOT replace the "shipped-in-the-box" MacOS on that new drive with anything -- it has custom Drivers for the new model Mac Pro.


Think about Migration Assistant and its cousin, Setup Assistant.

This software is prepared to copy your files and your added Applications and your settings to your new Mac.




as for the source of the copy, you can use the original drives still mounted in the old Mac, if still operational, or a Time machine backup, or move a drive to an external enclosure. the Firewire adapter that is available has a ThunderBolt-2 connector on the other end, so you need to add $$$ for a Thunderbolt-3 <--> TthunderBolt-2 AND cable to make that setup "go".


as for the connection medium, you can use an external drive enclosure, or you can copy across your home Network, it is just really really slow. Ethernet, especially Gigabit Ethernet, can speed that up quite a bit.


You can always copy stray files that got missed over later, manually.

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