solid state drive for macbook pro mid 2009

That would have been fine for a Time Machine backup, since the old drive was not completely full, but for an image restore it’s a big no-no. That would have been fine, except the new hard drive was fractionally smaller than the old one. I connected my old hard drive using a USB cable, booted from the CD and used the Disk Utility to restore the old hard drive to the new SSD. It turns out my Time Machine backups weren’t as complete as I thought. I use Time Machine for backups, so I slapped in the new hard drive, booted from the CD and expected to just restore from Time Machine. The transfer of the data proved a little more tricky than I expected though… The actual hard drive replacement is pretty simple. It arrived yesterday, so during last nights insomnia, I decided to fit the hard drive, rather than stare at the ceiling.

Despite this, I was bored the other night and decided to buy an SSD to replace the internal hard drive. I do demos with a couple of Linux VMs running Oracle and it works OK. A few years ago I upgraded from 4G to 8G RAM, so I’m not stranger to taking the back off it.Įven though it’s quite old by computer geek standards, I really don’t have any performance problems. Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. I’ve had my 13″ MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable.

Solid state drive for macbook pro mid 2009