Laptop SSD Hard Drive Installation in Apple Macbook Pro Computer - Walk Through / How To | MySuLonE

Replacing a 2.5" ide laptop hard drive with an sad hard drive isn't as difficult as you may think; especially for this Macbook Pro, late 2011 model due to the traditional design of the device with a SATA connection. The newer models have flash drives and some have ram that's soldered in. So, this late 2011 Apple laptop is one of the last models that can be upgraded easily by the end-user. In the end, I upgraded to 16gb ram and a 128gb sold state hard drive from Crucial.

[Video Notes: Sorry for the black bars on the side, but my room was messy at the time...doing too much upgrading and random projects]

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The drive was a 128gb Crucial M4 SSD hard drive (which is redundant because SSD stands for solid state drive). It's a 2.5" size which is pretty standard for laptops and has SATA connections. This makes install super easy...connect the data cable and the power cable. Done. There are no pins for different modes, etc...

The install is pretty straight forward. Unscrew the bottom cover, unscrew the bar that holds the hard drive in place, take off the rails on the side of the old hard drive, disconnect, and do the reverse on the new hard drive, and close the cover.

Follow the text instructions and you'll be fine. The harder part is backing up all your info and downloading and installing the new OS and getting all your apps back and files on the computer. To make these easier, I used a SATA hard drive adapter cable and cloned my old drive onto the new drive. It's an exact copy. You can do this with free tools out there and even with the disk utility. So, if all goes well, you can just boot up the computer with no problems like I did in this video.

The boot up time was cut in half. It would take around 35 seconds for the old laptop IDE drive to boot up compared to the 16 seconds with SSD. It was pretty amazing. Also, with the 16gb ram upgrade, the fan never came on again; which it did all the time when I had too many applications opened. There's less heat and the laptop was lighter. It's a great investment.

I could've went for a 256gb, 512gb or even 1TB sad drive, but they were so much more expensive at the time. Also, I prefer to house my files on external drives and in the cloud. Additionally, with the SD card slot, I just have a big SD card with me all the time as a 2nd drive that I keep in the laptop.

That's about it. Let me know if you have any questions!

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