Clone a Mac Book Pro HDD to a SSD?

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cojak replied

7 March 2018, 16:24
Originally posted by WTFH View Post

I think the 512GB SSD as a factory fit was something like £750 extra compared to a HDD when my company bought an MBP in 2011.

Which is why I trashed the warranty immediately and put a Crucial in it.
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WTFH replied

7 March 2018, 15:25
Originally posted by cojak View Post

Ah, that's much cheaper than than the 512 I bought in 2012!

I think the 512GB SSD as a factory fit was something like £750 extra compared to a HDD when my company bought an MBP in 2011.
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cojak replied

7 March 2018, 15:17
Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post

Depends what size SSD you need. The 512Gb Crucial that I put in the MBP was about 120 quid. Not a huge investment for totally transforming the machine. And if you do chuck away the MBP in a couple of years you get to keep the SSD for something else.

Ah, that's much cheaper than than the 512 I bought in 2012!

And you're quite right about pulling it out when I'm forced to replace. I'll do that Fred, thanks.
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Fred Bloggs replied

7 March 2018, 15:13
Originally posted by cojak View Post

Adding to this - the weirdness happening to my MBP may well be due to a problem with the SSD. They did say that SSDs don't last forever and this one has lasted 6 years.

But I got the MBP in April 2012 and I'm worried about spending > £200 on a replacement SSD only for Apple to stop supporting MBP 2011's.

Is it worth the gamble, or do I just buy a new PC?

Depends what size SSD you need. The 512Gb Crucial that I put in the MBP was about 120 quid. Not a huge investment for totally transforming the machine. And if you do chuck away the MBP in a couple of years you get to keep the SSD for something else.
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DaveB replied

7 March 2018, 15:10
Originally posted by cojak View Post

Adding to this - the weirdness happening to my MBP may well be due to a problem with the SSD. They did say that SSDs don't last forever and this one has lasted 6 years.

But I got the MBP in April 2012 and I'm worried about spending > £200 on a replacement SSD only for Apple to stop supporting MBP 2011's.

Is it worth the gamble, or do I just buy a new PC?

Write it off through depreciation and buy a new one though the Ltd. Simples.

Oh, wait, you can't
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cojak replied

7 March 2018, 15:01
Adding to this - the weirdness happening to my MBP may well be due to a problem with the SSD. They did say that SSDs don't last forever and this one has lasted 6 years.

But I got the MBP in April 2012 and I'm worried about spending > £200 on a replacement SSD only for Apple to stop supporting MBP 2011's.

Is it worth the gamble, or do I just buy a new PC?
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WTFH replied

28 February 2018, 08:27
I'm a bit slow to the party, but Time Machine does it perfectly:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10081

My company's old MBP from 2011 had a 512GB SSD in it, and if we'd kept it, I would have upgraded to something a bit bigger.
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Fred Bloggs replied

28 February 2018, 06:29
Thanks all, I used a Crucial SSD and downloaded Super Duper to do the cloning. The hardest part of the HDD to SSD upgrade was getting a small enough (size 00) screw driver to remove the screws and get the back off the MBP. Given that the MBP in question was pretty much a top line i7 jobby, one of the last before SSD's came in, the SSD upgrade has transformed this MBP and will extend the life of it by several years, I think. A simple "must do" upgrade this one, I think.
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Fred Bloggs replied

25 January 2018, 23:14
Thanks all. You make a bootable clone with Time Machine? Didn't know that. Thanks again.
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SimonMac replied

25 January 2018, 09:22
Originally posted by cojak View Post

I just used Time Machine.

+1
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sal replied

25 January 2018, 09:18
+1 for Time machine - backup done right.
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DaveB replied

25 January 2018, 09:04
Originally posted by cojak View Post

I just used Time Machine.

This, quickest and easiest way to do it.

Also free and comes as part of MacOS.
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stek replied

25 January 2018, 07:32
Or Super-Duper
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cojak replied

25 January 2018, 06:16
I just used Time Machine.
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Fred Bloggs started a topic Clone a Mac Book Pro HDD to a SSD?

25 January 2018, 04:57
Clone a Mac Book Pro HDD to a SSD?

My son wants his Mac Book Pro HDD upgrading to an SSD (around 2013 vintage, i7 CPU, 8Gb RAM, 750Gb HDD). I already did the HDD > SSD swap recently on a very similar Win 10 machine using Crucial's flavour of Acronis software that simply worked a treat. But it doesn't (I do not think) work on a Mac. Researching about how to clone a Mac Book Pro drive pointed me towards an application called Carbon Copy. I "think" reading about it, it was Freeware, but when I look at it there are now charges for it. I don't really want a paid for application to a one time only job. So, does anyone have any advice for me out there in CUK/Apple land at all please on how to do this HDD cloning job? Thanks.
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