HT204350: Move your content to a new Mac
Learn about Move your content to a new Mac
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May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscadaby Grant Bennet-Alder,★Helpfula replacement SSD for that model would still be a 2.5-in form factor drive.
The internal Bus is SATA-II, so do not pay extra for a SATA-III drive (but a SATA-III will downshift and work fine).
Build your new MacOS on the drive in an external enclosure or adapter, and make sure it is all working, so that you are not doing too much at once and cannot debug what the issues might be once you begin "surgery" to install the drive..
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May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Hamidscadaby OGELTHORPE,★HelpfulAdding to Grant Bennet-Alder's good advice, based on reputation and personal experience, I recommend SSDs from OWC and Crucial.
Ciao.
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May 24, 2016 6:13 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby Hamidscada,Tks for your answer , I doubt between
ADATA SP900 M.2 2280 512GB Solid Sate Drive (SSD) (ASP900NS38-512GM-C)
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DATA SP900 512GB 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive (SSD) (ASP900S3-512GM-C)
in your opinion know which one is compatible with internal bus and Controller ?
How about the specs, for example my macbook pro support 6Gb/s ?
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May 24, 2016 6:42 PM in response to Hamidscadaby Grant Bennet-Alder,MacBook pro main drive bay supports 3Gb/sec (SATA-II) [theoretically 375 Mega Bytes/sec] and is compatible with 6Gb/sec (SATA-III) but will transfer at the slower speed.
That speed is comparable to a lot of SSD maximum speeds, but may occasionally be slightly slowed by it.
An SSD (any SSD) is so much faster than the rotating drive you took out, you will not know why you did not make this swap long ago.
If you have an SSD drive, you generally need to enable TRIM. with 10.10.4 and later, you can use the Terminal command:
sudo trimforce enable
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