I'm just looking for a bit of reaffirmation that I'm doing this properly as I know a few of you have Macs and may have done something like this.
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 15" i7. I'm getting more and more delays due to HD stalls and a bit of carnage from three years of upgrading software, it still has the original hard drive in and has so much stuff on it that I don't want to wipe and start again. What I want to do is upgrade the HD to a SSD one, cloning the existing HD. Yes, I know that best practice is to start from fresh but I really don't want to go through the pain of install OS, apps and so on then wait for half a day while the various updaters mess around, even then I think I'd have a bit of difficulty finding half my license keys and install media for some apps.
My plan:
Samsung 840 Evo 1GB SSD
USB 3.0 enclosure for the cloning process
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my HD. Replace HD with SSD and hopefully the world will be all sweetness and light with a far faster experience. I'll then increase the virtual drive sizes for my VMs.
Known issues:
- I have no idea how I'll bring across my Bootcamp partition. I'll probably just bin it and start again with Win8. Probably less hassle all ways round.
- Licensing. I'm not sure how the MS licenses I have will tolerate cloning, I think the one that will be hit is Mac Office, the VM versions shouldn't care as all they see is a VMWare virtual drive rather than the physical drive itself. Anyone have any other opinions?
So, anyone see anything I've missed or that's known to go wrong? Any success stories or tips?
I have an early 2011 Macbook Pro 15" i7. I'm getting more and more delays due to HD stalls and a bit of carnage from three years of upgrading software, it still has the original hard drive in and has so much stuff on it that I don't want to wipe and start again. What I want to do is upgrade the HD to a SSD one, cloning the existing HD. Yes, I know that best practice is to start from fresh but I really don't want to go through the pain of install OS, apps and so on then wait for half a day while the various updaters mess around, even then I think I'd have a bit of difficulty finding half my license keys and install media for some apps.
My plan:
Samsung 840 Evo 1GB SSD
USB 3.0 enclosure for the cloning process
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my HD. Replace HD with SSD and hopefully the world will be all sweetness and light with a far faster experience. I'll then increase the virtual drive sizes for my VMs.
Known issues:
- I have no idea how I'll bring across my Bootcamp partition. I'll probably just bin it and start again with Win8. Probably less hassle all ways round.
- Licensing. I'm not sure how the MS licenses I have will tolerate cloning, I think the one that will be hit is Mac Office, the VM versions shouldn't care as all they see is a VMWare virtual drive rather than the physical drive itself. Anyone have any other opinions?
So, anyone see anything I've missed or that's known to go wrong? Any success stories or tips?
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