Mid2012 best external SSD
Which thunderbold external harddrive would be cheapest and best upgrade to SSD for the mid2012 Mac?
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I purchased new Seagate. According to customer service: " The STAE128 being the newer version. The 121 is listed as a GoFlex whereas the 128 is listed as a Backup Plus. They are exactly the same the model numbers just identify them for each product family. " What tool did you use to move the os to new thunderbolt drive?
Clone Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
button.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the SSD. Source means your internal startup drive.
This will also duplicate the Recovery HD partition onto the SSD. You could also do this with the current version of Carbon Copy Cloner with the exception that CCC does not clone the Recovery HD automatically, but it can do so as a separate operation.
thx, will do that when i get my stuff. I assume that there is an option in recovery mode to select a boot drive. My plan is to boot from ssd, but keep the partitions the same and constantly clone to old drive to have a instant backup in case something goes wrong. Any tool you recommend for cloning from within os at later time?
When you boot from a Recovery HD it will be to a menu from which you can select Disk Utility.
As for the backup you can use the old drive in an enclosure as a Time Machine backup drive.
i still have more data then 120G, so ideally i want repartition old mac drive for 2 partitions: 120G + whatever is free. Move bigger files to new bigger partition. Clone system to SSD. Boot from SSD and run a script to clone SSD to old HDD regularly. If SSD brakes I can boot fro HDD anytime. Can I repartition (resize)with standard mac disk tool? Then backup system and restore to ssd and then use maybe superduper to clone regularly. Not sure what happens to the recovery partition.
Do not use SuperDuper. Use Disk Utility to clone. If the disk you are cloning has a Recovery HD on it, then DU will clone it to the destination disk. You can also use Carbon Copy Cloner. It can make a clone of a Recovery HD partition, but does not do it automatically.
CC is not free anymore.
So can i repartition with disk utility if i run it from recovery mode? And then clone it there?
No, it isn't.
Yes, from Recovery HD.
No, it's bus powered which makes it very portable.
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
same to you , thx for help once i get my stuff i will test and let you know how it works
I moved the system to my new SSD drive and it is so fast now. When you copy the old disk to new with the disk tool, all the hidden partitions are automatically created. I split my old HD into two partitions and then I used disk tool to copy only the OS partition. Make sure when you do that that OS partition is a little bit smaller (1g or 2G) then max SSD space so there is enough space for the extra hidden partitions that are created. I noticed that during initial setup when i was creating or removing partitions on SSD drive, the drive would disappear from the Disk Tool and i had to unplug it and plug it back. I saw some journal errors in the log at that time. It happened few times,but after I was done, all was good. So fat system did not hang and all is working fine. Below before and after photos.
Mid2012 best external SSD