opolishas.blogg.se - 2009 macbook pro ssd upgrade

The free version is good enough to mirror your existing disk to the new one. I already had one thanks to my Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB portable HDD.

You will need a SATA to USB converter to copy data from your existing HDD to SSD.

However I figured that based on my usage (approximately 15-20GB read/writes per day), the SSD will still last at least 3-4 years. There is lot of debate about TLC vs MLC based SSD and how TLC SSDs have a shorter life span. I went with Samsung 840 Series SSD 250GB SSD available at Flipkart.

Choose an SSD that fits your needs (size, cost etc).

I will just document the steps that I followed for the upgrade process. There is already enough literature about SSD vs HDD and why you should or shouldn’t upgrade. Read and Write speed test for a Samsung 840 series SSD (250GB) Check the read/write speed of the drive in the screenshot below (remember on SATA II, the maximum transfer cannot exceed 300MB/s). Applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, Eclipse open in less than 3 seconds. Booting time has reduced from 120+ seconds to under 30 seconds.

It has nitro boosted for a 5 year old laptop (which still runs on SATA II). And to say that the laptop performance has increased will be an understatement. I would recommend the former.Recently I went through the process of replacing the hard disk drive (HDD) with a Solid State Drive (SSD) in my laptop (MacBook Pro 2009). After a successful drive replacement you can keep the original drive to either use it as a cloned backup or erase it and use it as an external drive.For this iFixIt is a great resource for step-by-step instructions.Remove the original HD, and replace it with the SSD.Once verified successfully, you can power down the notebook and disconnect the SSD drive from the USB port.Log in and verify that it "looks" just like before and that you can both access your applications and connect to the Internet. If the notebook boots up successfully.Keep holding it down until you are presented with a screen that offers a number of drives to boot up from. Power-up the notebook and at the startup chime hold down the Option key.Connect the SSD to one of the available USB ports on the notebook.Verify that you can boot your MacBook from the SSD.A few that come to mind are: Carbon Copy Cloner, and SuperDuper!

This is what OWC would provide if you went with one of their kits. An external drive enclosure to host the new SSD.You will need at least two things at this point to do this: Clone the existing internal HD to the new SSD.Since your can still boot up your Mac from the original HD, the basic steps to replace it would be: but I was keying in on your comment about not doing this kind of thing before. However, the process to do so does NOT require OWC's participation and can readily be done as a DIY project. They make it "easy" to do a drive replacement with their kits.