How to Upgrade your MacBook Pro late 2011 internal storage to SSD - get more space and speed
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- DIY: upgrade your internal storage to an SSD and get more space for your files, photos, videos. Crucial MX500 Solid State Drive Sata 6gb/s 2.5-inch SSD - 1000gb - 1TB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD on a MacBook Pro 2011,Crucial MX500 1TB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD Installation
I found you had the best instructions for the SSD upgrade, I just followed each screen and had absolutely no issues. Thank you for this mate, my boot time went from 10 minutes to under 20 seconds! I did both a 16GB ram upgrade and Crucial 1TB SSD - amazing improvement to a 10+ year old MacBook Pro!
did you do both 8gb ram for both slots for what macbook model?? hows your macbook rn?
@@zevstriker ik its a late reply but i did the ssd and ram, i have a 2011 macbook pro and i found two DDR3L (DDR3 Normal will work the L was the only one in stock and it just uses less power but you'll be fine with normal ddr3) two ram sticks each on 8gb which are exact;y 1333MHZ which is what the laptop will maximum support.
this video was of great help! thank you very much! successfully found and bought the same Crucial MX500 1TB HDD and bought a RAM set 16GB based on your specs.
I had to install the OS using CMD ALT R and then delete the entire partition ac create new one manually. disk erase just didn't help. after first set of updates my boot loader was damaged.. idk why. luckily for me first aid feature of disk utility did resolve the problem. as you can see it was not so smooth like portrayed in the vid but eventually I've got it running
Very much thank you 🔥 Time machine was the best part of this video, i was struggling watching other vids and they weren’t giving enough details how to install and restore.
Thank you very much. All other videos I found only showed how to put in the hardware. But you went a step further and also posted what to do after that. So thank you for that. Great tutorial. Easy to follow
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Hey! Thanks for this video, I followed it step by step and now my old MacBook Pro from 2011 boots up to how it was when brand new!
Great video! Do you recommend Crucial mx500 or Samsung 860 or 870 EVO? I have a Macbook Pro Early 2011 13”
Can't wait to do this to my 2011 (late) MacBook Pro - thanks for the great instructions
What a great video, clear and informative.Thank you
Great video, clear and concise! My old HD is bad, will I need anything after installing the new HD since I will not have a timemachine backup?
you should be good to go as long as you follow this video
Can I use my existing external hard drive that has files on it to do a Time Machine back up? Or does it have to be an empty one?
just finished upgrading mine, works GREAT! Thanks for the video
Thanks. Did this with a 2TB HDD a few years ago on my 2012 model. It's now running MacOS 10.14 Beta. How much faster was that MacBook Pro after converting to SSD? Did you make any measurements? I'm thinking of buying a 1TB device soon.
Is it possible to use a 1 TB WD (western digital) SSD to do this? About the OS, wich version is the lastest we can use on this late 2011, usefully?
Thanks for the instructions how to upgrade. 13"My MacBook Pro 2011, i7 500GB needs new RAM. Should I buy "Samsung NB 8GB DDR3 1333 x 2 pc, or the DDR3 1600? The DDR3 16000 is selling x1. I would have to buy 2 pcs. Could you please advise what to buy? What is the difference between the 2 versions? I am not an expert. I can remove and install RAM. Thank you for helping.
7:51 - so I get a different option when following the instructions in this video: my Mac goes into “ Internet recovery mode” and asks me to select a Wi-Fi network? Is this normal, should I try connecting to Wi-Fi? I really don’t feel comfortable doing that while it’s trying to recover. Any advice?
you need to connect to WiFi so it can download the macOS and install it.
why would you not be comfortable doing that ?
I thought it might be vulnerable since it hasn’t been able to complete the last update attempts due to insufficient available hdd space ( reason I am upgrading hdd) 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you for the thorough explanation!
This has been really helpful! I've purchased the Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA hard drive and I'm excited to install it in my late-2011 MacBook Pro! My computer has been running slow lately, so I thought this would be a good investment in addition to boosting my RAM. My biggest worry is restoring my files onto my computer and your video completely answered my questions around rebooting from TimeMachine. I back up my computer regularly onto an external hard drive and so, I think it'll be pretty easy to transfer over all of my files once the new hard drive is installed. I do have one question: If my computer goes into sleep mode while it's reloading from TimeMachine, will that impact any of my file transfers?
You can leave your Mac alone while it’s transfering. As long as you don’t have it running of the battery but have it hooked up
Fantastic! Thank you so so much! You’ve been a great help!
Glad to help out
Breakups2Makeup, I've just purchased the same SSD as yours. Did the install and file transfer work for you as was demonstrated in the video? Any problems encountered along the way? What kind of performance results do you have now?
Very clear instructions. Thanks!
Thanks for this tutorial. It’s great to doing things that are absolutely (at first at least) out of our/my knowledge. So thanks to you and all the people sharing all kind of tutorials around the world. BUT...I had an issue when I did this procedure. I proceeded looking to this video, and get to the point of transfering files from my external drive to the new SSD through Time Machine. Things were going right, the last time I checked the Time Machine transfer it was around 50%. Power adaptor was connected. It was late in the evening so I left my MacBook Pro transfering files by night. Next day (today) I checked if it was finished, and the MacBook was shut down. I thought it may be part of the process so I turned it on. The apple logo appears while the screen is white and a process bar is loading. It seemed normal. But when the bar is about 1/3 of the loading process , the MacBook shuts down. I try staring up again and same result. I don’t know why this is happening. Please any thoughts? 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
SOLVED: be careful because every procedure like the one on this video depends on your Operativa System (OS). I had IOS X 10.10.5 installed in my original Macintosh HD, and because of this my Time Machine backup (that I was trying to migrate to my new SSD) had that same OS, and I don´t know why but doing what is said on this video just did not worked for me (see my original post above). I tried a lot of things: first, a tech guy achieved to install Mac OS High Sierra on my new SSD, so I needed to copy my Macintosh HD/Time Machine backup files into the SSD, so when I tried to import my files through Time Machine, it just keeped happening what I described on my original post. Then I tried cloning the original MacIntosh HD using Apple recovery system, but it threw an error before starting the process and it was just not possible to do it that way. What I finally did was just download a clone software (in my case, I used Carbon Copy Cloner, which has a 30 day free trial) AND THAT WAS IT. Everything ok. It was really a pain in the ass all the regular Apple procedures, man I mean WTF Apple¡¡¡!!!!??? But Carbon Copy Cloner was THE solution and WAY easier and it just worked perfect and at the very first attempt. I hope this will save you time, money and stress. Cheers.
Thanks a lot for your clear explication. Good luck man.
Glad it helped 😃
Great Job explaining and it's working like a charm = Thanks
Hi, this is an excellent video, Thank you! Just wanted to ask: at which point should I plug in my external hard drive? At first you didn't have plugged in and later in the video, it was already plugged in. Does it matter when we plug it in?
Thanks!
You can plug it in at the same time I did or before - it doesn’t matter
Great video thanks, its the first one I have seen that upgrades to 1 terrabyte rather than 500gb. Can you let us know if it is still operating well 3 years later? I'm curious as I am thinking of doing this now but obviously my mac is now 10 years old so wondering if its still worth it. Thanks
Mac is working but had to fix other stuff now, it worked until 2 years ago than I had other problems.
Didnt make a backup just wanted a fresh install. Cannot get it to get the the first step during the download of mac os lion
If I want to do this to my 2009 MacBook pro but would like to erase the content thats on the computer. Do I skip the time Machine step and then update after the new SSD is installed? Thanks
If you don’t care about your files - no need for time machine
Good chance some of my files may have been corrupted so I’m doin the like.. 😆
Great video! Very well explained. Thanks!
Is there a way to upgrade the SSD without command R? I get the firmware lock 😢
How can I install NVME drive in my MacBook Pro 2011
Hi, i tried to switch to SSD but when I pressed Command R the file with question mark popped up. I tried a few times already but it’s still the same. Please help :’)
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Okay crisis averted! I plugged in my external hard drive that I used to backup before booting. Thank you so much for the clear explanation on how to back up with Time Machine. Most other videos just don’t talk about it.
Thnx for the great tutorial. All went well until starting up. I get the spinning globe but it then asks for an internet connection through WiFi. It connects to my Wifi but after 10-15 minutes I get an error. It says apple.com/support 2002f. I also tried setting up with a hotspot on my phone. That also resulted in the same error. Do you have any idea? I found some post on the Apple communities but all cases are not subject to changing a harddisc. Also tried with Ethernet but I get no option for connecting to an ethernet connection. Thank you upfront for your time and effort.
Rober-Jan Touw, were you able to find a solution to your problem? I'm about to try this process but have concerns that I may encounter some unexpected roadblocks as you found.
I can’t get anything to download because nothing supports Sierra anymore.
Hey I could really use your help, I upgraded my macbook pro late 2011 to the same ssd as in the video (240 gb tho) and now my fans are going crazy! Nothing running or overheated and they just wont turn off… i dont know what to do
How did you solve this?
@@edgargalicia4475 i forgot… it had something to do with icloud syncing stuff (likely email and contacts), then I disabled it and it stopped overheating, plus, downloaded mac fan control to manually override it
Do you think is worthy to buy this macbook in 2020 with the ssd upgrade already done?
not really
Super helpful video! Thank you!
Command + ALT + R is the other option for installing MacOS
I got an SSD Sand Disk Plus would I need to do something different than this? Because I keep getting error when I try to restore from Time Machine.
Did you properly format it like in the video ?
Tech & Design yes. I did exactly like the video. Does the external hard drive need to be formatted for it to work?
My Crucial BX500 SSD didn't come with that frame-like thing--is that going to be a problem?
shouldn’t be a problem from what I can see
@@TechandDesign Thank you! Amazing video! I followed your instructions and it's restoring right now! :)
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I just upgraded mine thanks to you!! 2021!!! It was funny you named your SSD ----> HDD lol
I could have named it Mickey Mouse . makes no difference 👍🏻
@@TechandDesign I apologize if it sounded in a bad way. It was just funny in a good way. Thanks for your help.
One more question, please! Will my operating system transfer over to my new hard drive from Time Machine as well?
as you can see in this video. yes
Can you advise screw driver?
After SSD installation : for mac install: push Command + R to enter recovery mode (and install mac OS)
everything worked up till after the apple logo, just a grey screen :(
is this for the 15" ??
Thanks dude.
Happy to help
Thanks for sharing!
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Bro do you still have that macbook pro late 2011 I wanted to ask you some questions about that model how can I communicate with you in private? any email or phone?
just ask here
@@TechandDesign Bro I have a macbook pro 8.1 late 2011, I bought an ssd and 2 memories and of the two memories that I asked for 1333mhz they sold me 1 of 1600 mhz and 1 of 1333 mhz, and when I install them the mac starts up but after a few hours it hangs, you think What are the memories or the ssd?
@@TechandDesign Another question, does this mac model support apfs? in the ssd or it generates an error because of the old
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Great video, thank you!
Glad it helped!
I just got 2011 macbook pro few days ago and i added 1tb SSD in mine
It is a 2011 late? What kind of SSD did you use?
touch some wood? i thought touch some grounded object to discharge your static?
Be cool if I could’ve seen there wasn’t 19k dislikes. Maybe I would’ve found this one before I spent 30 mins scrubbing through the other videos.
confused about your comment. this video doesn’t have 19k dislikes . luckily no haters have come to this video yet
Nothing about your video in particular, I’m just still pissed about YT dislike counter 😅 it sucks because I would’ve watched your video first if I could actually see the ratings of the other videos
Just wear gloves static shock
Great video! Do you recommend Crucial mx500 or Samsung 860 or 870 EVO? I have a Macbook Pro Early 2011 13”
Any of those 3 will be fine . The Crucial BX500 is a tad slower than MX500 on some graphs but if you can stand in front of your device and see the speed difference , good luck to your superhuman eyes and go save some money.