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#Macbook pro 2011 hard drive replacement ssd upgrade

OWC Mercury ExtremeT Pro Solid State Drive (SSD) Kits - priced from $114.99 (up to 54% less than the factory SSD options) with capacities of up to 480GB.

#Macbook pro 2011 hard drive replacement ssd upgrade

Priced at: $124.99 (compared to up to $150 for factory 750GB 5400RPM upgrade option).

OWC 750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive Kit - 50% more storage capacity than the largest 500GB 7200RPM drive factory option.

OWC 1TB Hard Drive Kit - features 33% more storage capacity than the largest 750GB drive factory option.

OWC Internal Hard Drive/SSD Upgrade Kits for MacBook Pro 13", 15", and 17" models include: OWC's complete upgrade kits provide all the needed tools, including a bus-powered external enclosure, for the easy installation, data transfer, and ongoing use of the original drive for additional external storage and/or data backup. March 1, 2011, Woodstock, IL - Other World Computing (OWCÂ®), a leading zero emissions MacÂ® and PC technology company, announced today the immediate availability of higher capacity, higher speed hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs) "Do it Yourself" kits for the new MacBookÂ® Pro 13", 15", and 17" models announced by AppleÂ® last week. Substantial Savings & Additional Options vs. OWC "Do it Yourself" Kits Offer up to 33% More Capacity for Standard Drive Bay, JUST ANNOUNCED NEW 2011 APPLE MACBOOK PRO MODELS OWC ANNOUNCES INTERNAL HARD DRIVE/SSD UPGRADES FOR So it got solved in the end, but it wasn’t quite the blissful experience I expected.Kthomas ( -at -) eyutani ( -at -) Photo at: Once that was done I dragged my apps and data from the old drive across to the new drive. So finally I bit the bullet and re-installed Snow Leopard (the most recent media I had), upgraded to Lion, then Mountain Lion through the App Store. I could always replace the old drive, but I was starting to think I might have wasted my money.

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.