Howdy, y'all...I'm torn. I have a new 480gb SSD going into an old...2005 MacBookPro3,1 ....I'm running Mavericks, which crushed my system. Any opinions / war stories on which is the most effective way to get my data from my old / existing drive to the new one.
Clone an SSD or Move the data
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The first gen Intel Macs arrived in '06 - the MBP 3,1 would be a late '07 model.
Along with the SSD, you need to max out the RAM in that system which would be 6 GB the default 2 GB those shipped with will not cut it.
Rather than clone to an SSD, I likely would install the OS and restore from Time Machine.
However, Crucial has some directions for cloning here.
I use SD! for cloning, however, I've not done any research as to what SD! or CCC have to say about their software when cloning "to" a SSD.
Along with the SSD, you need to max out the RAM in that system which would be 6 GB the default 2 GB those shipped with will not cut it.
Rather than clone to an SSD, I likely would install the OS and restore from Time Machine.
However, Crucial has some directions for cloning here.
I use SD! for cloning, however, I've not done any research as to what SD! or CCC have to say about their software when cloning "to" a SSD.
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I use CCC and cloning works well with SSDs. Advantage of CCC is it will also setup your Recovery Partition.
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I stuck w/ what I had, Disk Utility, and it worked just fine.
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