1TB HDD (12.5mm/2.5") drive in MBP13/15/17 - Success

[Audeo]

Sure. I'm thinking from my point of view, seeing as I have a 60GB SSD. So I only want the essential on my SSD, all other stuff like the Home folder, movies and such on my conventional HDD.

And starting clean, I avoided all problems I read in forums, like programs not finding their settings after things were moved, etc.

[loop]

fresh install is very tempting! I wish I did a fresh install with this hdd upgrade, but I didn't, as it would have been for the sake of it's own. Still running the original OS X install from Oct 2009 and can't find a reason to rebuild it yet. It's the third HDD in the MBP and still the original OS (actually my first OS X machine ever )

BTW, having the entire Home folder on a spinning platter is not the best, IMO. I mean, there are lots of I/O operations happening with the user's profile folder and it's best to leave them on the SSD for very fast access & operation. What i'd suggest to do is to just have the "Music", "Downloads", "Movies, "Pictures" and "Documents" on the spinning platter (the static content) and everything else on the SSD. That is mostly because of the Application Data & Local Settings folders - the system is extensively using them.

Not sure if such complication is really worth, but to me it's the perfect separation of SSD vs HDD content on your setups. I'm currently preparing this as a two partition layout on the 1TB toshiba. I'm using softlinks/shortcuts to make it all look as if it's one drive setup only and all the paths are as expected by default. Next step could be to rebuild the OS anew - I'm sure a fresh OS will run better after all those years of trails and errors.

[Nesquigs]

12.5 drives only fit in Unibodies with the CD drive on the right.

i have an early 09 unibody 13" mb. and the samsung 1tb 12.5 drive didnt fit in my macbook.....

its only certain ones. there was another thread like this one recently

[Nesquigs]

And starting clean, I avoided all problems I read in forums, like programs not finding their settings after things were moved, etc.

speaking of which... i just put my ssd in my macbook! yayyy it runs so fast

but traktor gave me an error that i needed to reset the root directory to a default value..... (which it referanced my old HD -the 250 that came with it - and the filepath there....)

any ideas gents?

[Karlos Santos]

LOL Karlos - the CCC failed me twice for some reason and i left it behind . Good to hear it was a defective drive and you caught it so early. I always do a full format or a full read/write test on a new drive before i put it in production.

the installer approach is definitely faster in my experience. The restore is doing "bit copy" operation with the "dd" command(almost sure bout that), which is more optimal then the rsync approach of CCC. If you have a USB time machine backup, it's also a good option, as you can install the new drive internally and push the "suck" button from the USB backup

it's likely that your SSD disk will come with both SATA and USB ports. If so, i'd boot the installer, connect the SSD with USB, while the old drive is still inside and use the "Restore" option from Disk Utility.

CCC just failed on me again. Another 7 hours wasted.

I have feeling that its the USB Caddy at fault. The cloned HD (not ssd) boots in the caddy as GUID but states SMART status Not Supported. When the cloned HD is in the Mac it wont boot and Disk Utility states Master Boot Record not GUID. It was defintely formatted correctly.

This thread on CCC makes me think that the USB caddy doesnt have the juice to do the job: http://help.bombich.com/discussions/...00rpm-500gb-hd

Gonna redo it now. My Time Machine backup was made today so its up to date and its on a Western Digital PSU powered My Book.

Do you think that Time Machine will be quicker and better than Restore.

[Nesquigs]

Do you think that Time Machine will be quicker and better than Restore.

i personally hate the disk utility....but yeah. probz

CCC worked great for me...

[Karlos Santos]

I think CCC is cool . all my mates use it but i need to confirm my hunch about the enclosure/caddy.

I wonder if i boot from the old drive in the caddy and run CCC from there and clone onto the new HD inside the Mac it will work?

[Nesquigs]

i cloned from my 250 boot to my 750 hd in the optibay with CCC and it worked like a dream...

can you open any other enclosures and try that?

[loop]

CCC will resume the sync, so restarting the CCC process it will save you time.

you can boot from the caddy, but know that my caddy was also giving me griefs on one of the USB ports (with CCC). I then changed the other port and used the image restore.

Time machine restore should be about the speed of the image restore option. Leave it for the night and by the morning it should be done ... since you trust the TM drive and you know it works fine on the proper USB port, it should be hassle free, I guess ...

[Karlos Santos]

Only have this one and to be honest its a piece of cheap crap... possibly the only time i have scrimped on gear. Works ok as a caddy to boot from for my older full HDs.

As its getting late i may just install OSX to verify that the disk is good and then use Migration Assistant in the morning with the Time Machine option.

I dont actually want to clone the drive i just wnat iTunes and traktor.
Problem is i have 11,000 tunes that somehow are READ ONLY so they wont copy by just dragging the iTunes backup.

I guess Migration assistant or TM will copy them.

or i may just stay up for another 5 hours doing it !!!!!!:eek: