



2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum).You'll want a SATA to USB adapter cable like this one: Startech 2.5" SATA to USB adapter.Size and weight Height: 0.11-0.68 inch (0.3-1.7 cm) Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm) Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm) Weight: 2.9 pounds (1.32 kg) 1ġ.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB on-chip shared L2 cache or optional 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache You'll still want to hook up your old drive to your system so you can leverage the Migration assistant to bring everything over. Once the new SATA cable & drive are installed you'll need to boot up under either your old drive or the thumb drive we created to install a fresh copy of OS.

Here's the better cable: MacBook Pro 13" Unibody (Mid 2012) Hard Drive Cable - Apple P/N 923-0104. This serves two functions one to get you comfortable on what you'll do with your SSD when you install it and create a boot drive just in case!įollow this IFIXIT guide to take your old drive out and put in the new SSD in, as well as replace the drives SATA cable as well as thins series has a known issue with them: MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2010 Hard Drive Cable Replacement. First reformat the thumb drive using Disk Utility with GUID partition mapping and format the partition Mac OS Extended (Journaled) the launching the copy of the installer to install the OS onto the thumb drive. I would recommend making a copy then create a bootable USB thumb drive. Now go to the App store and download the OS installer if you don't have it in your Apps folder already. I would go to 8 GB (light user) or 12 GB. You also may want to up the RAM if you have a 4 GB model. Take the time to review the spec sheet if it doesn't state it supports SATA II you'll need to find another SSD. You'll want to get a SSD that can work in a SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) system. You'll want to leave 1/3 of the SSD free for a 256 GB unit and 1/4 for a 512 GB or larger. You'll likely need to trim down as SSD's tend to be smaller (cheaper) than HD's. Next, If your drive is quite full delete some of the stuff you don't really need. The first thing you'll want to do is make sure you have a full backup of your stuff on an external drive.
