#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD INSTALL#
#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD UPGRADE#
#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD PRO#
#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD MAC#

#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD UPGRADE#

With RAM being relatively inexpensive, it makes a nice upgrade too, especially if you find yourself multitasking a lot.

#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD PRO#

I highly recommend an SSD upgrade over a new MacBook Pro if yours is less than 5 years old and you donРІР‚в„ўt need the latest hardware features like a Retina display or Airplay mirroring. The Crucial M500 SSD has a 3 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed. Applications open in a few seconds or less instead of taking up to a minute to open. IРІР‚в„ўm getting a 3 Gigabit link speed instead of 1.5 in the System Report, and I can boot it and launch a browser in less than a minute. The MacBook Pro now feels like a brand new machine. I simply dragged and dropped files from the Time Machine backup because I didnРІР‚в„ўt need to keep any apps from the previous installation. Boot into OS X and transfer your data from the backup.

#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD INSTALL#

Select the USB drive to boot from and follow instructions to install OS X.

Attach the bootable USB installer and restart the MacBook while holding down the Option key.

Press the power button and wait a few minutes for it to boot up.

For the RAMР’В upgrade, follow AppleРІР‚в„ўs instructions.

ReattachР’В the black arm and tighten down the two screws to hold the SSD in place.

Connect the SATA and power cable to the new SSD, and carefully place it where the old hard drive was located.

Put those four screws on the new SSD and stick the plastic pull tab on it.

Once the hard drive is removed, itРІР‚в„ўs a good idea to use some compressed air to dust the internals.

Unplug the SATA and power cable from the hard drive, then remove the four screws in the sides of the hard drive with the Torx T6 screwdriver.

Remove the black arm, then use the pull tab to carefully lift out the hard drive.

Take off the bottom cover and use the Torx T6 screwdriver to loosenР’В the two black screws in the blackР’В arm/hinge that holdsР’В down the hard drive.

I set them down in the same pattern they are installed in the MacBook. Keep track of where they go because threeР’В of them are longer than the others.

Use the Phillips #00 screwdriver to remove the 10 screws on the bottom of the MacBook.

DonРІР‚в„ўt just put it to sleep it must be shut down. I used createinstallmedia and a 16GB USB flash drive.

Create a bootable USB installation drive.

I used an external USB drive and Time Machine to create a backup.

Backup any files that you want to keep from the old hard drive.

These are the steps I followed (make sure you avoid static discharge when handling the computer internals):

I would like to emphasize that you should get a Phillips #00 screwdriver and a Torx T6 screwdriver if you donРІР‚в„ўt already have them.

#MACBOOK PRO 2013 SSD GONE BAD MAC#

I also picked up a Crucial 2x4GB DDR3 1066 Mac memory kit.Р”Р‡or the installation process, there are plenty of blogs and tutorials so I wonРІР‚в„ўt go into fullР’В details here. After browsing a few discussions on AppleРІР‚в„ўs support site and reading some reviews, I ordered a Crucial M500 240GB SSD because others reported good compatibility with the specific nVidia chipset (MCP79) in this 2009 MacBook Pro 13РІР‚С–. Knowing that others had success with SSD and RAM upgrades in this MacBook model, I decided to pull the trigger on new hardware. I decided against that because even the best-case scenario would still be slow compared to the SSD speeds IРІР‚в„ўm used to on my personal desktop and my company MacBook with an SSD. The only РІР‚СљfreeРІР‚Сњ option that I really had left was to backup the data, reformat the hard drive, and install a fresh copy of OS X. Nothing seemed to make a difference, and after an agonizing afternoon slowly upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion, I decided to get serious about fixing the problem. This was bad even for the hardware it had, so I tried a few different solutions, including upgrading to OS X Lion, fixing disk permissions, and general hard drive cleanup (defrag, deleting applications and files that were no longer needed, etc.). From a cold boot, it took about 4 minutes to load the OS and stop thrashing the hard drive so you could open a browser or iTunes. When I first used this laptop in 2013 (four years after it was manufactured) it was running OS X Snow Leopard.

A few searches online uncovered others who had similar setups and successfully upgraded them to modern performance standards with an SSD and additional RAM.

While it probably worked great when it was new, five years later it had become painfully slow (#firstworldproblems) with its 2GB of RAM and 160GB HDD. My fianc Р“В© has a 13РІР‚С– MacBook Pro from 2009.

Macbook pro 2013 ssd gone bad