Good SSD for MBP 2011?

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I still own a early 2011 MBP, it's great for what I need it for. I've decided that I'd like to upgrade to an SSD.

Which one is best for my model? Currently it has the standard 500GB HDD, I was thinking of purchasing a 250gb and cloning everything over using a program called Superduper? Is this even possible? Currently I have only 160gb used of the 500gb.

If anyone can advise, I'd appreciate it.
 
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Ive personally gone for a Crucial M4 512Gb one in my 2011 MBP, and used a Crucial M500 in the Mrs' Macbook.

Cant fault them.

I would consider using Carbon Copy Cloner instead of SuperDuper at the moment, especially as CCC also clones the Recovery Partition and has official support for Mavericks.
 
a0004uk said:
Ive personally gone for a Crucial M4 512Gb one in my 2011 MBP, and used a Crucial M500 in the Mrs' Macbook.

Cant fault them.

I would consider using Carbon Copy Cloner instead of SuperDuper at the moment, especially as CCC also clones the Recovery Partition and has official support for Mavericks.
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Yes Carbon Copy Cloner is a good piece of software, I used it to clone my MBP 750 to a Seagate SSHD 1tb, the best part of it was I had a kernel panic 3 quarters of the way into copying 600gb of data over , I restarted the laptop and it just picked up from where it left off, Also you get a trial and as the poster said it copies the recovery partition.
 
I put a Samsung 830 in my mid 2010 a couple days ago and I haven't noticed any discernable difference in performance at all. Underwhelmed to say the least. Maybe if it had SATA 3 it would be more noticeable.
 
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I put a Samsung 830 in my mid 2010 a couple days ago and I haven't noticed any discernable difference in performance at all. Underwhelmed to say the least. Maybe if it had SATA 3 it would be more noticeable.
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IIRC it does have SATA 3. When i purchased my MBP 2012 (MID) last year i swapped out the HDD straight away. initial boot was around 25 seconds or so. after installing the SSD its now under 9 seconds.

In regards to the OP, I would also recommend Samsung SSD's. Not sure what the EVO is like but the 830, from grit hand results its excellent.
 
Macbook pro 2011 SSD?

Hi guys I would like a 512gb ssd to fit into my mbp early 2011. I haven't used it much over the years but it saves me getting a new one as it is good spec. I did post last time on what needs to be done but can't find the thread.

Can anyone recommend a good ssd and also a way to transgression everything from my current hdd to that?
 
I relaced the 750GB HDD in my 2011 MBP with a Crucial 1TB SSD and use CarbonCopy to back up to the original HDD connected via Thunderbolt connected SATA.

Works very well and I'm in no hurry to change.
 
OhEsEcks said:
I put a Samsung 830 in my mid 2010 a couple days ago and I haven't noticed any discernable difference in performance at all. Underwhelmed to say the least. Maybe if it had SATA 3 it would be more noticeable.
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Strange, I swapped my 2010 MBP HDD for a 250gb SSD and its significantly better. :)

*edit, ah, old post revival. :)
 
Just to update, I got a Crucial 750gb limited edition mx300 SSD from the bay at a decent price. Installed it and wow what a difference, while I was at it I upgraded from 8gb to 16gb.

It really has made my mbp, brilliantly quick. Unfortunately, the seller only had 1 left. If he had 2 RAID 0 would have been an option! Thanks again guys.
 
I have a 2011 MBP i went with the Crucial 960gb a while back, awesome upgrade. been rock solid for a couple of years now.

never updated the firmware on it just put it in transferred back via timemachine good to go
 
Weird this thread just appeared as I have just bought a 850 EVO 250GB for my eary 2011 Macbook Pro. I upgraded to 16GB ram a couple of years ago but am hoping this SSD will make it a bit snappier. Just a shame you can't upgrade the screen to retina :)

Just gave it a clean too and it looks like new!
 
Krisali an SSD does make a heck of a difference. Before boot time would take 1 minute 15 seconds. Now it's 10 seconds. Not sure why I didn't upgrade earlier.
 
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