Hybrid SSHD with macbook pro - Booting issues

Let me guess, you have a 2009 or a early released 2010 model Mac notebook.

The 2009 model, and I suspect the early built 2010 models but I'm not totally sure, came with a cheaply made drive to logic board cable that doesn't work well with faster drives like your hybrid or true SSDs. There is a long thread on this titled something like "Seagate XT series disaster". Take a look at that thread.

Did you create a GPT using Disk Utility or some other partition tool? You need a GUID Partition Table to boot Intel macs from any drive. I just purchased this drive for an older Macbook and mine works fine.

I picked up one of these Seagate SSHD 1TB drives (ST1000LM014) and it's incredible what an improvement it is. Boot time is about 1/3 as long, and the laptop feels A LOT faster.

Can't go wrong for $119 (TigerDirect).

I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, and not looking to upgrade until Apple offers a MBA with 16G of RAM and 1TB SSD.

Don

Shouldnt ever pay more than $68 for top quality 1TB 2.5" drive.

😊

Hello everyone.

I just found this thread now in April 2013, months after it was originally written.

I am about to buy the 1 tb Seagate SSHD for a recently purchased (from Craigslist) 2012 Macbook Pro 15 inch running 10.8.5. There is no data on it, except for the OS Mountain Lion and iLife. At home, I have Snow Leopard install disks and an iLife 2011 install disk. I want the large INTERNAL capacity of the 1tb, but I would like it to work at around the same speeds as a SSD, so I thought I would get the SSHD.

I have never replaced my hard drive before and after reading this discussion, I'm worried that it sounds really complicated.

I was going to simply take out the old 500gb 5400rpm hard drive, put in the new SSHD, then insert the Snow Leopard disks to install the OS, then insert the iLife disks to install the iLife apps, then use Time Machine to transfer my data from my older computer onto this newer one.

Am I missing some important steps? This thread seems to imply that I am going to get errors?

PLEASE HELP !! Thanks

mudelicious,

I'm not certain that a 2012 model will run on Snow Leopard, so I wouldn't go tat router were I you.

Instead, I would install the SSHD (shouldn't have any problems with a 2012 machine), boot to Internet Recovery (hold down the command, option and R keys whilst booting), use Disk Utility to format the drive ("Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" witha single GUID partition) and install Mountain Lion via the Internet (assuming that's the OS that shipped with the machine).

If you've the white retail Snow Leopard disc, you won't be able to use it anyway. And since your machine didn't ship with discs, there's no use fooling around with them except to install iLife.

Good luck,

Clinton

SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM BOOTING A NEW SSHD.

I have a mid-2009 15" MBP. I purchased a new 1TB Seagate SSHD that would not boot internally. Did tons of research and found out that I either had to jumper my new drive to 1.5gbps or get a new internal SATA cable. I opted for the cable. The drive still wouldn't boot internally. Did more research and found that others had connected their old HDD externally with their new drives internally. Did this with the old cable, and nothing happened; did this with the new cable and the drive was recognized, but unreadable even though I had already cloned it. Re-cloned it using Carbon Copy Cloner (with the old drive external, new drive internal with new cable). The new drive booted after this with no issues.

Order of steps:

1) Get a new cable. ifixit and Amazon both have them. Make sure you get the right one.

2) Install the new cable (ifixit has videos/guides)

3) Install the new drive internally.

4) Hook up the old drive externally.

5) Restart holding the 'option' button.

6) Boot from the old drive.

7) Format the new drive with one partition using disk utility (make sure you click options: GUID partition!)

8) Clone the old drive to the new one using CCC (do the recovery HD option for sure)

9) Verify the new drive using DU; repair any errors.

10) Boot from new drive to make sure it's working ok and that everything runs.

11) Voila!

PlotinusVeritas wrote:

Shouldnt ever pay more than $68 for top quality 1TB 2.5" drive.

😊

Where can I get a 1TB SSHD for less than $68?

Hi

I have 2011 MBP. One day I got the flashing folder screen. It seemed my 500GB HDD was dead. So I got myself a 1TB Seagate SSHD. I ideally hoped I could just use my time machine to restore onto the new SSHD. This doesn't work. I repeatedly get an error message saying "An error occurred while erasing your restore destination disk. Restore your computer, and then try restoring again". I have formatted my new SSHD as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", I have even tried doing a single partition and ticking the GUI table option. I have also tried to reinstall OSX through the cmd+r menu, but when the installation completes, it goes back to the flashing folder screen. Does this mean something might be wrong that isn't related to my SSHD?

Non of this is making any sense to me. Please can someone advise what I can do to...

1. be able to use the time machine to restore to my new SSHD??

or

2. install OSX successfully without it going to the flashing folder screen so I can hopefully restore time machine through OSX.

Many thanks in advance

I have tried all of the commonly mentioned steps and I've discovered there must be some kind of firmware or other thing specific to my macbook pro. I have two laptops a 2009 macbook (aluminum) 2.4ghz core 2 duo and a 2012 macbook pro 13" 2.9ghz i7. I've been trying to install a new Seagate 1tb SSHD ST1000LM014. I spent several hours trying the above methods.

I have been able to rule out the following:

It can't be the SATA cable because I've installed other hard drives I have laying around and all of them seem to work just fine on both the 09 macbook and the 12 macbook pro.

I suspect it shouldn't be the hard drive since I was able to install OSX with no problems on my older macbook.

I've tried to use the command prompts I've been able to find;

fsck -fy; And

fsck_hsf -fry /dev/disk0s2

Neither of those commands were able to fix the problem. At this point I'm wondering if it's somehow a unique thing about this model of macbook pro or if its something wrong with the hard drive.

As a pot shot I installed the El Captain using the 09 macbook on the 1tb hardrive, then put that clean install into the 2012 MBP to see if I could get around that problem but it didn't take. I got the grey screen with the folder and question mark.

Could use some help trying to get an idea if I should return the drive and try another or if this is something I need to bring to apple to have them fix.