How I changed the SSD in a MacBook Pro to an inexpensive, but capacious and fast one. Installing an SSD and a second HDD


If you have already changed the HDD, that is regular hard drive, your MacBook on an SSD, that is, on a solid-state drive (and you did it), then it would be superfluous to tell how much faster the laptop becomes after such an upgrade.

However, as it turned out, even in such a not at all complicated upgrade, you can do things wrong if you don’t have the proper experience. In this regard, about one mistake that the author of this post first managed to make, and then had to eliminate when he decided to change the HHD to an SSD in his working MacBook. By the way, regarding Apple repair issues in Kyiv, this link will tell you and help you.

In general, the essence of the fable is that the operating room Mac system OS, as opposed to Windows, for newly installed solid state drives TRIM command does not turn on automatically. However, if your MacBook was originally equipped with an SSD, then when you replace it (for example, with a larger drive), TRIM will already be enabled by default.

What is TRIM? In short, TRIM is special team, which is sent by drivers when any file is deleted file system SSD disk controller. Having received this command, the controller “understands” which data stored on the SSD is no longer needed and background clears them, freeing memory blocks for new data. This is one of the specific features of flash memory. And in this way the data is in blocks SSD memory are rewritten at approximately the same speed as on HDDs, in which data is rewritten according to a different principle (new ones are written “on top” of old ones without preliminary cleaning).

Another thing is that not all operating systems support the TRIM command. And, as in my case, the user finds out about this after the disk replacement has begun and after an “unclear problem” has arisen.

Therefore, if you are planning a similar event, I recommend that you first check whether this same TRIM team works there.

You can do this as follows:

  • click the Apple icon (in the left top corner screen) and in the menu click “ About this Mac «;
  • In the next window, click the button “ System report «;
  • in the left part of the window that opens, find and click “ Hardware " and then in the list - " SATA/SATA Express «;
  • Now scroll to the right side to the line “ TRIM support «;
  • if we see nearby " Yes", it means the command is enabled if it says " No“, then TRIM must be enabled separately.

How to enable TRIM on MacBook:

First, let’s double-check that you are logged into your laptop with administrator rights. After that:

  • launch Terminal (you can simply find it through Spotlight);
  • recruiting a team sudo trimforce enable and click Enter ;
  • enter password that account, which is on this moment used, and press Enter ;
  • the system will ask you to confirm your actions, read the request, write y and press again Enter ;
  • now the system will ask for permission to reboot - write again y and click Enter .

After this, all that remains is to wait until the laptop reboots, and you can consider the job done. But for the sake of order it’s better to go to “ System report" and check if TRIM is working. And then you can change the disk. Read more about the features of replacing components and repairing Apple equipment, in particular Macbooks, iPads and iPhones of any model and year of manufacture here - http://wefixit.com.ua/remont-iphone.

The cost of the original 256Gb SSD for Macbook Air and Pro Retina 2012 is 17,000 rubles, for Macbook Air and Pro Retina 2013-2015 it is even more expensive - 26,000 rubles. An M.2 (NGFF) SATA SSD converter costs about 2,000 rubles comes to the rescue. This thing will allow you to use M2 SATA SSD drives, to example Samsung for 256Gb, but for 7,000 rubles. Saving 2 times - not sour! You can install the converter in Macbook Air 11" and 13" from 2010-2015, as well as in Macbook Pro Retina 13" and 15" from 2012-2015.

Unfortunately, since 2016, Macbook Pro Retina 13" and 15" have non-removable SSDs soldered on the motherboard, just like their younger brother - Macbook Retina 12". The only option to upgrade or replace is to replace system board entirely.

Is it possible to expand the integrated SSD in a MacBook?

If the flash memory is soldered in, then the motherboard must be replaced. Such Apple models has been producing since 2015, starting with MacBook Retina 12" and Pro lines. A couple of "workarounds":

  • Use high speed external storage, for example with USB interface 3.0
  • Using the SDXC card slot is neat and budget-friendly, but the speed of 60 MB/s is disappointing
  • Buy a 128 or 256 GB TarDisk Pear memory card at 2 times the price of your fellow tribesmen. Installs in the same SDXC slot. Key Advantage Pear in automatic merging with built-in hard drive and creating an analogue of Fusion Drive

Data recovery

In 70% of cases, the data will be copied even if the HDD is damaged. It is more difficult if the disk controller (board) is faulty, although we can solve such problems. With an SSD, in 80% of cases it will not be possible to extract files, or the operation will be prohibitively expensive.

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Replacing SSD MacBook Air | about | Retina may be needed if the device is dropped or short circuited. This can be understood by the following signs:

  • ● If the operating system;
  • ● It doesn't turn on at all;
  • ● In case you cannot open the file; it constantly throws an error;

Repairing a broken SSD in a MacBook on Kurskaya

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This is very important and has already become a rule good manners for the service center. Diagnosis is the most difficult and an important part repair, but you do not have to pay a penny for it, even if you do not repair the device as a result of it.

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Good service values ​​your time, so he offers free shipping. And for the same reason, repairs are carried out only in the workshop of a service center: they can be done correctly and according to technology only in a prepared place.

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Hi all! Today I'll tell you how I changed HDD on an SSD drive in your new MacBook. I already talked about on my blog, and that I bought a MacBook Pro 13 without Retina. So in this laptop costs terribly slow HDD Hard disk, its rotation speed is 5400 because of this there are noticeable freezes at startup certain applications or when waking up from sleep. I especially notice this because in desktop computer I've been using it for 3 years now SSD Hard disk on which I have the system installed and necessary programs, plus I also bought one SSD drive for games, sometimes I like to play various cool games.

I'm not saying that Apple missed the mark with this laptop and made it slow, no. It’s just different, someone wouldn’t even notice it if there was nothing to compare it with.

This laptop has a disk drive, I found a lot of videos and articles on the Internet about the upgrade option by replacing the disk drive with optibay (DVD slim 9.5mm adapter for HDD) in which you can put a hard drive instead of a disk drive and put an SSD in the place where the HDD was. I bought everything, an adapter and an SSD drive for 256 GB Vertex 450 from the manufacturer OCZ (It has a crazy price of 7890 rubles.) Why did I choose OCZ? – For me, this is a proven manufacturer of durability, since SSDs have limited quantity recording cycles.

Optibay - This is a very interesting thing, many thanks to whoever came up with it, I think this thing will be useful for those whose laptop is not quite new, it will be possible to install an SSD drive instead of a disk drive and Windows will work many times faster even on not very powerful hardware.

I thought for a long time and decided that, in principle, I didn’t need a second HDD instead of a disk drive and decided to leave the disk drive and just install a 256 gigabyte SSD, this is not so small for a work laptop, especially since I have external USB hard and stationary PC.

Let's get started replacing that very slow HDD!

The first thing we need is a tool, we need a small Torx Phillips screwdriver, I still have it from the time I changed the glass on my old iPhone 4. Hexagon and plastic spatula, also included in the kit. Tool when parsing Apple technology plays a very important role! No need to twist those little bolts with a knife! I recommend not to rush and if not necessary tools then it’s better not to take it on, but first buy everything you need.


Now I need to remove static electricity from myself, I looked on the Internet how to do this and decided that it would be easier to just strip down to my underpants than to look for all sorts of antistatic agents

Turn off the laptop and turn it over


Before unscrewing, draw a diagram on a piece of paper so as not to get confused in the bolts, because in all Apple technology almost all bolts are different. Here we have 3 long and 7 short in these seven by 4 there is a border, this is important.


So we draw something like this and put the bolts in their places so that we can screw them back into place without any problems! This method works in disassembling any device, and it is very effective - why didn’t I know about it when I was disassembling my toys as a child

Unscrew it, arrange the bolts, remove the cover and disconnect the power cable! Otherwise, if you accidentally drop a screwdriver or some other metal object on motherboard will happen short circuit and that’s it, screw it, replace the motherboard... and maybe something else.


We do everything confidently and carefully with a plastic spatula!

Next, unscrew the holder hard drive. Again, I’m surprised at how simple and high-quality everything is made, the holder is metal, the orange rubber bands in the photo clamp the mounting bolts so that the hard drive feels comfortable, I think it even cushions it a little when hit and causes less damage to the hard drive.


After removing the holder, carefully lift the hard drive and pull out the SATA cables; if it is difficult to disconnect, pry it off with a plastic spatula.



We twisted it, now we put our SSD in place, carefully connect the cable, and first insert the lower bolts into the orange rubber bands and clamp them with the holder.



We close the lid back, take the bolts from our diagram, and screw everything into place.

Don't worry about the score operating system, Apple also excelled here! Now we'll install everything. Yes, all data from old tough The disk will have to be transferred by connecting to a computer or via a SATA - USB adapter, I think this will not be difficult.

We connect the laptop to the Internet via cable (this is faster) or via Wi Fi, it will ask you to select an access point, which one to connect to, enter the password and that’s it.

Turn on the laptop and hold down the CMD + R keys until the progress bar appears, after the bar is filled we will see this image:


Unfortunately, they offer to install OS X Mountain Lion, although OS X Mavericks has been out for a long time, but it’s okay to update later, we don’t have Hackintosh (I used Hackintosh on my desktop PC for about a year, that’s when my craving for Apple began, it especially attracted my attention Time Machine, this thing will never be in Windows!)

Don't rush to click continue, first go to top menu in Utilities, Disk Utility and create or partition a hard drive. After that, click “Continue” and accept license agreement, and select the disk on which we will install.

I have one, I didn’t share it:


Waiting for the download process installation files system, you don’t have to sit and wait, he will do everything to the end in automatic mode, after downloading the files, it will reboot and the installation will begin, which will proceed quite quickly.

Here is the result of the work speed, using the launch example Adobe Photoshop CS 6:

There was a case when I installed Windows 8 on an SSD using the installation USB flash drive 3.0, on PC with Intel processor i5, to be honest I was shocked because the installation time from start to desktop took only 8 minutes! This is cool, what will happen in the future?

That's all, I think the information will be useful. Thank you for your attention! Subscribe to my blog updates. Ask questions in the comments, in the future I think I’ll write how I installed more random access memory, but for now I’m happy with 4 gigabytes on my laptop.


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