Solid State Disk, a generic term for computer storage devices that have no moving parts and do not involve a "hard disk". A hard disk, in contrast, is a device incorporating a spinning platter or platters that store information magnetically.
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Macbook pro 2009 2.66 samsung SSD 830 won't boot internally
I'm trying to install a Samsung 830 GB in a MacBook Pro 2.66 (2009). It boots and works perfectly external using USB (im using it now) but not internally, so I was wondering what I have to do to make ...
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Replacing optical drive in macbook with SSD: does it matter where the SSD drive is installed?
I've just replaced my MacBook Pro's optical drive with an SSD. I used OWC's Data Doubler kit. I've moved my OS and all my data onto the SSD, and I'm now using it as my boot volume.
In other threads, ...
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Does the use of SSD give one a dramatic performance boost?
I use Mac book pro 15", and it's time to buy a new one.
For HDD, now I see a new option of SSD, which is pretty expensive.
I can expect shorter boot-up time and faster access of files, but I'm not ...
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How can I best use an SSD?
I have a Mac Pro, and I've added an Intel 80GB SSD to improve performance in LightRoom and Photoshop. So far so good.
But after moving all of my current work, catalogs, etc. to the SSD, I still have ...
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Is installing a HDD instead of SuperDrive safe?
It's pretty popular to replace ones optical drive* on the MacBook Pro with a HDD, but how serious are the risks?
*In most cases, you'd do this when installing a third-party SSD, but I'd like to leave ...
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MBP with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 loses connection to system SSD at random times and freezes
So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 ...
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How does TRIM Enabler work?
I recently bought a third part (OCZ) SSD and used Trim Enabler to, well, enable TRIM. I've noticed that some software updates can cause TRIM to be disabled, and have thus been curious about how TRIM ...
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Enabling AHCI for SSD under Win7 BootCamp on Macbook Pro 2011
I've just installed a new Samsung 830 256GB SSD and have configured BootCamp with Lion and Windows 7.
Under Lion, I have installed Trim Enabler.
Under Windows 7 I have installed the Samsung (Wizard) ...
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Is there a way to securely erase an SSD on my MacBook Air?
I have a late 2011 MacBook Air with an SSD and Lion. I used it for a while and then I activated File Vault 2. Now the data is encrypted, but I need to securely erase it so I can sell the computer.
I ...
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Resurrection of my MacBook Pro
My MacBook Pro was pronounced "dead on arrival" by the Apple Genius after sustaining injuries from liquid that had been spilled in my brief case. Despite the purchase of a new MacBook Pro Retina I ...
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MacBook Air 2012 SD Card for iTunes library to save reads/writes
I subscribe to a lot of video podcasts some very short, a minute or so, and some very large, half gig. I fly 8 hours a week minimum and this is the content i watch on the plane. Since files are ...
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What do I need to know to buy an SSD drive for a 2008 MacBook 5,1?
I'd like to buy an SSD drive for my MacBook aluminium (MacBook5,1 from 2008). What do I need to know to buy one which will work fine with it?
I.e. years ago any IDE drive would fit any IDE slot, but ...
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Is it possible to enable TRIM for an external SSD?
I have an iMac from 2011, Mac OS X 10.6.8, and an SDD in a FW800/USB3 case.
Which interface can let me enable TRIM: USB2, USB3, FW800 or Thunderbolt ?
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OS on external SSD for performance?
I have a 2011 iMac 27", and back then opted for a HDD. Back then (and now still) I fear for the lifespan of SSDs, and hauling an iMac 27" to the store is cumbersome, so it looked the right choice.
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How to securely erase an SSD drive?
I'm pretty new to SSD technology, so I don't know how it compares to hard drives when it comes to securely erasing the drive. Is it enough to run Disk Utility and erase the drive with the option ...
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Turn off encryption on filevault2 second HDD
I have an Early 2011 MBP on which I installed an SSD (in the SuperDrive's bay).
After that I enabled FileVault2 encryption on both the SSD (which has the ML 1.8.2 install) and on the original HDD ...
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Macbook late-2008 and Samsung SSD 830: what happened
I'm trying to install a Samsung SSD 830 256 Gb disk as main disk on my macbook late-2008. I had several problems with my disk due to a couple of wrong choices (you can read the story here).
I booted ...
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Fusion Drive: free space on SSD
Is there a possibility to find out how much storage is free on a SSD of a Fusion Drive disk (SSD + HDD as a logical device)? The structure I use is this one here:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: ...
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restore MacBook from sparse image
I recently wiped my MBP hard drive as well as installing a new SSD.
I have a sparseimage backup of my old drive (created with Carbon Copy Cloner) that I want to restore onto the SSD.
I've tried to ...
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Do the 2011 MacBook Pros support a user-installed SSD in place of the HD
On the iMac there is some thermal sensor that connects to the hard drive and makes this a bit tricky since non-Apple SSDs don't have that feature. Is this true for the 2011 MacBook Pros?
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50% SSD Space lost issue on MBA
I have an MBA 2009, model A1304. The Hard drive system information says its an "Apple SSD SM128". But when I look at the available and total space, I have one partition 28.8GB (bootcamp) and one ...
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Macbook Pro Upgrade - 16GB RAM or 128GB SSD
I am asking myself which constellation is better: should I stock up my RAM up to 16GB (from 8GB), or should I buy a SSD with 128GB??
I really dont know :/
Cheers!
BTW: My macbook supports 16GB ...
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MacPro 1st Gen - can it handle SSDs?
I have a MacPro 1,1 and am considering putting an SSD in it to give it a boost. Can I safely assume compatibility or will its ancient hardware and architecture cause issues? It cannot, as I recently ...
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Why do I get back more disk space when I restart my Macbook on Mountain Lion 10.8.3?
I frequently run low on disk space on my laptop. When I'm down to my last gig or so on my 256MB SSD (as reported by iStat Menu), I'll get various warnings from the OS and apps saying that I'm running ...
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Is there a utility for mac that shows the information of an SSD like the health etc…?
I am wondering if there is a utility for the mac that allows you to see the details of an SSD like the health of the drive, TBW (total bites written), how many running hours etc... In researching for ...
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OWC SSD freezes regularly
I installed a new 115GB SSD with a clean lion install in my MacBook pro (2010) with the data doubler containing my old seagate hdd.
The install took over five hours, which made me pretty suspicious ...
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Upgrading new Mac Mini to have SSD. Do I have to buy Lion, or can I just re-download from App Store?
EDIT: The accepted answer below works, but I can also confirm that just booting the stock machine and visiting the App Store, you can just re-download it and make a boot USB drive before swapping out ...
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The volume “ok” could not be repaired
my macbook air 2011 just doesnt show the login window, after running fsck -yf it shows
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Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing... disk0s2: no such device disk0s2: media ...
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Is FileVault 2 + SSD + OverProvisioning possible?
As the title says, could someone accomplish this?
I couldn't.
FileVault 2 wizard tells me that the disk isn't compatible with it.
I have only 3 partitions on main disk, and Recovery HD was cloned ...
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What brand of SSD does apple use for their LATE 2011 MacBook Pros? [closed]
The ones that came out on October 2011. Models #:
MD311*/A, MD313*/A, MD314*/A, MD318*/A or MD322*/A
The SSD options are listed here with no detailed information:
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How do I rebuild my HDD/SSD from scratch without Time Machine on MacBook Pro?
Ok let me try and sketch the situation;
Hardware
MacBook Pro 17 inch (Early 2011), 1x 750 GB HDD + 1x 140 GB SSD
OS
Lion
Just after I purchased my MacBook Pro I swapped the 750 GB drive for the ...
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Disk Utility Disk Verification
I ran the "Verify Disk" tool in disk utility on my main disk called Macintosh HD, and it came up with this log:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking storage systemChecking volume.
disk0s2: Scan ...
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Dedicated SSD/HDD to install Windows on a MacBook
So I have a Late 2008 unibody MacBook. I recently bought a caddy to replace my optical drive with so I can fit a secondary drive in the laptop.
I have a 256 SSD in the main and a brand new 128 SSD to ...
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MBP mid-2012 with SSD, does not hibernate
Specs: 15" MBP mid-2012. Upgraded to Gskill 16GB RAM. Mountain Lion 10.8.2 installed in 128GB Plextor M5 Pro SSD in the optibay.
Problem: My MBP doesn't hibernate anymore. Whether when battery runs ...
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How can I verify that a DIY Fusion Drive is working as it should?
I installed an SSD in my 2011 Mac Mini to run alongside the stock 500GB HDD. After carefully reading through a number of tutorials, I used Terminal to merge them into a single "Fusion Drive". I cloned ...
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OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?
OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. (It won't boot.)
What do I need to exclude?
I've been able to compress large parts of it, but then I had to restore after I compressed ...
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Fix slow startup after utility disk repair on a SSD
I have a 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 series with Trim support enabled installed on a mid-2009 13" Macbook pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8, 2.26GHz, 8Gb of RAM) and I experience extremely slow startup after ...
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Fusion Drive not moving data back to SSD - anyone encounter this?
I'm about to buy a Mac Mini and have got the DIY Fusion Drive parts handy. I'm actually a bit on the fence about the choice of manual SSD+HDD separation with the aid of symlinks and proper Fusion ...
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Accessing my old FileVault2 encrypted drive from my new SSD
I'm almost ready to mount my new Crucial M4 SSD into my MBP Unibody13" and move my old HDD into an Optibay caddy. (Finally, thanks to an Amazon's discount..)
I would like to install a fresh Mountain ...
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MBP SSD upgrade - which settings to change?
After replacing the harddisk drive in MacBook Pro with a Solid State Disk I am wondering which settings I should change and how.
Thinking of things that are supposed to protect the SSD like
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How to store sleepimage on secondary HDD on Mac OS X 10.6?
I have a MBP 2010 with Snow Leopard on it. I put an SSD in the place of DVD Drive and am using an awesome SSD(80GB)+HDD(500GB) combo for speed and efficiency for the right price.
All I want to do is ...
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Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive?
I am running an SSD boot drive and a HDD drive on my Macbook Pro 5,5 and I obviously cannot have Time Machine filling up my SSD. I was wondering if there was anyway to have time machine create local ...
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How long will an Apple SSD last?
Like all tools, an SSD will wear out from use and eventually fail. Are there data on roughly how long the SSD's that Apple ships in it's portable line last?
From my research, it seems that the ...
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MacOS X installer and Disk Utility does not recognize the SSD drive on MBA 1,1
I've tryed to upgrade my original MBA with SSD (item on eBay), but Disk Utility in the MacOS installer does not recognize it. I've tryed to boot from Ubuntu Live USB, but GParted does see it too.
How ...
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iMac with aftermarket SSD - blank login screen [closed]
Here's a tough one for you. I installed an SSD in the optical drive slot of my 2009 iMac a few months ago. It's the system drive, working in conjunction with the old internal hard drive. On occasion, ...
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Moving /.MobileBackups to USB or SD drive on Mountain Lion / OSX 10.8.2
I've used the excellent tutorial found here Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive?
to move the local snapshots folder off of my SSD and onto a ...
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Would upgrading to SSD solve my performance issues?
My MacBook Pro specifications are:
Core2Duo 2.65 Ghz
4 GB RAM
320 GB HD
Performance is killing me literally. Really long response time.
Do you suggest to replace the Hard disk with SSD one ? Is ...
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Copy Crucial SSD Firmware Update ISO to Bootable USB
I want to start with the Crucial SSD Firmware Update and copy the ISO to a bootable Mac USB stick, using a minimal set of tools. I hope that means using only built-in Mac software, such as Disk ...
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Why would I disable swap file in Mac OS X?
I came across a thread about installing an SSD drive in MacBook Pro.
Someone in the comments also recommended to disable the swap file but didn't say why:
sudo launchctl unload -w ...
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External Harddrive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
