SSD for a mid 2010 MBP

[ZesPak]

dxg said:

Buy a drive caddy and use carbon copy cloner to create an image of your old drive on your new one. It will deal with the additional space just fine.

Then put the new drive in the laptop. No need to reinstall anything. Has worked for me a few times, but takes ages.

It's been a while since I've engaged in that, but does this work if your new disk is smaller? Not in use, but just smaller.

Eg:

Current 500GB disk with 150GB in use
New 250GB SSD.

[Thorburn]

ZesPak said:

It's been a while since I've engaged in that, but does this work if your new disk is smaller? Not in use, but just smaller.

Eg:

Current 500GB disk with 150GB in use
New 250GB SSD.

It should do (it works fine using SuperDuper, I don't use CCC personally).

I'd personally favour a USB install to the new drive and then import user data, apps, etc, using Migration Assistant from the old drive though.

[HorneyMX5]

The Sandisk drives look good VFM. Anyone used those?

[Thorburn]

HorneyMX5 said:

The Sandisk drives look good VFM. Anyone used those?

Yeah, set up a few machines with those in the past, normally use the Plus drives: http://amzn.to/2bJJW1P

Got one of the Sandisk X400 drives in my laptop too as that took an M2 drive rather than SATA.

[thebraketester]

Ive got a Cricial 240GB SSD in my 2011 MBP. Works like a treat!

[thehappyotter]

Put one in my 2010 Macbook Pro and it's like a new laptop. Just held down alt with the install DVD in the drive and booted from that to install.

Can't afford a new one at the moment due to saving for my wedding and this will help it last a while yet.

Also downloaded a program called Trim Enabler (or similar I'm on my phone so can't check) as Trim isn't enabled by default on non official drives.

[Clivey]

As someone that does this stuff for a living, I'd go for the latest Samsung Evo in whichever size best suits your needs. I've fitted dozens and have never had a problem with any (have the 1TB 850 in my own MacBook Pro).

If, like many, you no longer use your DVD drive, you could also replace that with a HDD bay and fit either a large HDD or another SSD as a secondary drive. Just another idea in case that's helpful to you.

[Bikerjon]

I've fitted loads of these in Macbooks. I have to make a profit so I use whatever I can get a decent price on unless it's specified as part of the job. I'll use pretty much any drive by Crucial, Samsung, Sandisk, Kingston or Toshiba but I will avoid the smaller manufacturers. I've had zero returns so I think a lot of those early problems that SSD's had have been virtually eliminated these days.