Which SSD for my MacBook Pro?

Popping a 256gb Samsung 830 in my 2011 macbook pro tomorrow night.

No need to restore applications at all just use carbon copy cloner to copy the entire contents of your existing drive over to the new ssd & also dont forget to copy over the lion recovery partion as well to the new drive.

Take out the old drive and pop the new one in, if anything does go wrong you still have your data on the old drive & backed up to time machine too.

What i have done is cleared out a load of old stuff from my existing drive as I had more than 256 gb worth of stuff on it, it was sitting at 340gb so it would not fit on the new drive, copied the excess stuff over to an external hdd.

Hope this helps

Cheers all
 
sorry to hijack but i've a question.

i have just swapped out my SSD from my gaming rig into my mid 2010 SSD and placed the Momentus XT into my PC.

I copied over the HDD using time machine backup which all went fine.

Question i have though is by doing it this way would i see the same performance as i would if i'd installed OS from scratch? Reason i ask is i know when you install any software it optimises for your system. as all previous software etc was installed onto the momentus which is a different drive would it have optimised it the same?

sorry if it's a noob question.
 
If you're backing up using Time Machine and restoring after a fresh install, you're essentially just doing a longer version of copying using CCC.

magicroundabout: you'll see the same performance, no need to worry about that.
 
Your Momentus XT? If you have a consistent usage pattern (access the same files, etc) you won't see much difference, and of course you get the advantage of more space. And of course, if most of the storage is just being used for media, no point in moving to an SSD to sacrifice that.

Entirely based on that really. If you've got heavy usage, might as well pick up a Sammy 830 256GB notebook kit now or soonish. If as above, might as well stick it out.
 
Fitted the Samsung 830 tonight in my macbook pro no problems at all used carbon copy copy cloner to copy the entire contents of my existing drive (including the Lion recovery partition) over to the 830 .

All working fine and patched the os to get trim working on the 830 as well.

Just remember to format the 830 over to mac journal as its preformatted as ntfs (windows) and away you go.

Cheers all
 
There's only one.

Crucial M4 128GB.

If you have a Boot Camp partition, remember to image over the Mac OS partition first onto your SSD, and then recreate the Boot Camp partition before imaging that back over.
 
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Right guys I need some help. I have the drive and I have downloaded (I think) CCC. I open the application and it keeps saying 'before you begin to use ccc, please copy it to your hard drive'

Which hard drive does it mean and how do I do this?

I apologise in advance as I am not brilliant with computers!
 
Sorted it thanks guys. I had to format it first (forgot you had to do this). I also set a hard drive partition for the recovery console. Hope thats right.

Installed it now, cant believe how quick this thing is now!
 
working class said:
Sorted it thanks guys. I had to format it first (forgot you had to do this). I also set a hard drive partition for the recovery console. Hope thats right.

Installed it now, cant believe how quick this thing is now!
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How did you set the recovery partition? Should just use the option in CC, if you created it manually, this is wrong.
 
Format your drive to mac journaled first.

Use carbon copy cloner to copy all the contents from your mechanical drive to your ssd.

Carbon copy cloner will copy the lion restore partition first and will prompt you to do so.

Carbon copy cloner will then copy the entire contents of your drive over to the ssd, it may take a while.

Switch off your macbook when its finished.

Remove your old mechanical drive, fit the ssd, switch on your macbook and away you go.

The above is how I installed my samsung 830 into my macbook just under a week ago.

Do a time machine backup on your old drive before you clone to the ssd just to be on the safe side & all should be ok.

Cheers all :)
 
Although I have an Intel 510 120GB in my MBP I'd go for

Crucial M4 -> If your on a budget
Intel 520 -> If your wanting the best of the best
 
working class said:
Right I think I have a problem. I cant back up using time machine. Its not seeing the SSD in my device list?

Any idea whereI have gone wrong?
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What device list exactly? Time Machine doesn't have a device list.

Pazz said:
Although I have an Intel 510 120GB in my MBP I'd go for

Crucial M4 -> If your on a budget
Intel 520 -> If your wanting the best of the best
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He's already purchased, see above.
 
working class said:
Right I think I have a problem. I cant back up using time machine. Its not seeing the SSD in my device list?

Any idea whereI have gone wrong?
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Think your getting confused.

"Select Disk" is for choosing which disk to store the backup on to. OS X already knows where the files to be backed up are (unless you've excluded them from the backup specifically).

The boot disk would never show up as it would be pointless backing up onto the same disk drive.
 
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