Hi All needing some help with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 as it is running slow , i have just changed the Hard Drive Cable as recommended but still not much better .
I have just run a EtreCheck as seen people on here recommending i will post the report , can anyone give me some tips on fixing as not really tech savvy . Thanks
Welcome!
Several things. First, you are trying to run Catalina on 4GB RAM. Fortunately, the computer was not starved for RAM at the time of the test, but could be once you have a lot of things open. My som is runnign Catalina on the same Mac with 8GB RAM and it is working quite well.
This is a cause of "slow."
Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:
Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)
Other processes 81.07 % (?) 👈🏻
EtreCheck 8.21 % (App Store)
trustd 5.06 % (Apple)
CoreServicesUIAgent 0.23 % (Apple)
accountsd 0.16 % (Apple)
To see what that is, you'll need to grant EtreCheck Full Disk Access. Instructisofor doing that are in Etrecheck's Help menu under the "more Help" category:
However, your big hitter is what plagues most Macs of that era with mechanical hard drives:
Performance:
System Load: 0.98 (1 min ago) 1.10 (5 min ago) 1.33 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.78 MB/s
File system: 69.50 seconds
Write speed: 77 MB/s
Read speed: 81 MB/s
That is top performance for that drive model but the drive, like the MacBook Pro 2012 13-inch itself, is entry-level. It is a slow 5400rpm SATA 3GB/sec drive attached to a fast 6GB/sec drive bus. On that model a 6GB/sec 500GB solid date drive kit will cost under US$100. I put such a kit in my MBP 2012 and these are its drive scores:
Performance:
System Load: 1.61 (1 min ago) 1.60 (5 min ago) 2.94 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.15 MB/s
File system: 28.20 seconds
Write speed: 487 MB/s
Read speed: 482 MB/s
It feel like a new computer. This is the kit I used:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/Y3SSD6E500/
As you can see, there are other capacity options. As you have recently replaced the drive cable, that is all you need. I highly recommend the kit because it has a transfer enclosure that makes cloning the old drive to the SSD very easy.
Based on many posts here, people using OWC and Crucial drives have the best success.
Welcome!
Several things. First, you are trying to run Catalina on 4GB RAM. Fortunately, the computer was not starved for RAM at the time of the test, but could be once you have a lot of things open. My som is runnign Catalina on the same Mac with 8GB RAM and it is working quite well.
This is a cause of "slow."
Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:
Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)
Other processes 81.07 % (?) 👈🏻
EtreCheck 8.21 % (App Store)
trustd 5.06 % (Apple)
CoreServicesUIAgent 0.23 % (Apple)
accountsd 0.16 % (Apple)
To see what that is, you'll need to grant EtreCheck Full Disk Access. Instructisofor doing that are in Etrecheck's Help menu under the "more Help" category:
However, your big hitter is what plagues most Macs of that era with mechanical hard drives:
Performance:
System Load: 0.98 (1 min ago) 1.10 (5 min ago) 1.33 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.78 MB/s
File system: 69.50 seconds
Write speed: 77 MB/s
Read speed: 81 MB/s
That is top performance for that drive model but the drive, like the MacBook Pro 2012 13-inch itself, is entry-level. It is a slow 5400rpm SATA 3GB/sec drive attached to a fast 6GB/sec drive bus. On that model a 6GB/sec 500GB solid date drive kit will cost under US$100. I put such a kit in my MBP 2012 and these are its drive scores:
Performance:
System Load: 1.61 (1 min ago) 1.60 (5 min ago) 2.94 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.15 MB/s
File system: 28.20 seconds
Write speed: 487 MB/s
Read speed: 482 MB/s
It feel like a new computer. This is the kit I used:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/Y3SSD6E500/
As you can see, there are other capacity options. As you have recently replaced the drive cable, that is all you need. I highly recommend the kit because it has a transfer enclosure that makes cloning the old drive to the SSD very easy.
Based on many posts here, people using OWC and Crucial drives have the best success.
L-Glover83 wrote:
Hi All needing some help with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 as it is running slow , i have just changed the Hard Drive Cable as recommended but still not much better .
I have just run a EtreCheck as seen people on here recommending i will post the report , can anyone give me some tips on fixing as not really tech savvy . Thanks
<Mac Book Pro Run Slow.log>
Runtime: 5:46
APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 500.11 GB (Mechanical - 5400 RPM)
Performance:
System Load: 0.98 (1 min ago) 1.10 (5 min ago) 1.33 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 0.78 MB/s
File system: 69.50 seconds
Write speed: 77 MB/s
Read speed: 81 MB/s
Is this the OEM mechanical HDD that shipped with your Mac? or did it get replaced when you installed the new SATA cable?
Drives can fail at anytime—You typically expect mechanical drives to last 3-5 years you are on borrowed time.
I suspect your drive is failing.
Verify you have backups in place in the event of a catastrophic failure.
You would benefit greatly from a SSD (and your new SATA cable)
You would benefit greatly from more RAM—max 16GB
OWC SSD Upgrade Kits For MacBook Pro 2012
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-pro/2012
lifetime guarantee on RAM from third party source like:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade
MacBook Pro Mid 2012 Going Slow
