

QNINE SSD Enclosure for Macbook Air 2012, A1465 A1466 Hard Drive. To do this, when the MacBook is turned on, you must press the Option key (Alt) or Command+R keys simultaneously, then select Recovery and in the pop-up window choose Reinstall OS X, after which the latest version itself will download from the Internet and will be installed.īy the way, in this recovery mode, you can select “Disk Utility” in addition to reinstalling, erase the new SSD and restore the system from HDD to it. QNINE M.2 NGFF SSD to A1369 A1370 Adapter for 2010 2011 MacBook Air HDD Replacement. Unlike previous models, you cannot upgrade the internal hard drive. The second option, which I prefer, is to install a clean system from the Internet to a new SSD. The hard drives in the new 2018 Mac mini are PCIe which means they are very fast, but also expensive. About 30GB was transferred for an hour and a half, upon completion, disconnected the HDD and the system started already with SSD. I on the test started the system from the old HDD through the USB pocket and cloned it into a live SSD and installed the program Carbon Copy Cloner. For this how-to, we replaced the hard drive on a 15-inch MacBook Pro (non-Retina) from 2012 with a 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD from OWC, which costs 579.

Apart from one brief visit to Apple to replace a noisy fan, I’ve had no worries. Similarly, you can connect the SSD via a USB pocket in front of the Earth drives, make a copy of the system and check the startup. I’ve had my 13 MacBook Pro since the mid 2009 refresh and it’s been really reliable. The system can be started from the old HHD via USB, it does not matter where the disk is inside or outside. After replacing the drives, the old HDD I connected to the MacBook via an external USB pocket in order to clone it to an SSD.
