How to install SSD in Mac Pro

I'm upgrading a Mac Pro 1,1 - My new SSD (2.5") just arrived, and documentation is minimal - not sure if I need a kit or adapter to install into one of the open drive bays. Crucial (usually no complaints with them) isn't very informative.

You'll actually need an adaptor such as the Icy Dock (this is what I use).
Don't forget that your SATA ports are limited to 300MB/s, so you won't get top SSD speeds.
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Currently using two WD 500GB HDs, one cloned by Super Duper. I'm replacing these with two Hitachi 1TB (6 Gb/s) and would like to add an SSD for a boot up and app disk. Please help with advice on how to mechanically install the SSD (E.g., is an adapter bracket needed?) and how best to move or install OS X and the apps onto the SSD.

Yes, you need an adapter to convert the 2.5" drive to 3.5". Here's OWC adapter. Included on that plage I linked to is a little video illustrating how to use it. If you buy some other adapter installation is basically the same.
As for how to make it your boot drive, there are a number of ways you can do that. The procedures make no difference whether is it a SSD or HDD.
The first way would be to do a full clean reinstall of your system on to the boot drive. Then if you need to, use Migration Assistant to move stuff from your "old" HDD boot drive to the new boot drive.
The second is simply clone your existing HDD to your SSD.
Once you created your new boot drive you can change your Startup Disk system preferences to default to boot from it.
No matter which method you use, always have backups before doing anything, or at least do not wipe out the original HDD until you are sure your system is fully working with the new SSD (wait a week), and then still create new backups of your new system.
Some other considerations. Persoanlly I recommend OWC for SSD. It's where I got my 120GB. Assume an Snow Leopard installation needs about 25GB to work with enough room to expand its vm space, etc. So depending on what you want to place on the SSD you probably be "safe" with anything from a 60GB to 120GB. YOu might consider placing your home directory on a HDD leaving the SSD for the OS and what you consider "key" files. That's how I have my system set up.
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How to install Windows8 on Mac Pro 3,1

   Hi Gang, I have been reading up on the difficulties of installing Windows on a Mac Pro (early 2008). The issue seems to be related to EFI and MBR conflicts that prevent Windows from loading to install after Bootcamp's partitioning.
   My issue is that after Bootcamp reboots there just isn't a way to get the DVD to load and continue. I can load it trhough refit but after "loading files" completes the system stalls.
   Does anyone know if there is a way to change/format the drives differently that would allow this install to succeed?   In teh past I have had Win7 on thsi machine and just can seem to figure out how that worked before.
   I'm pretty well stuck - I tried refit, USB sticks, ISO's and the like. But I think it will need to load and boot from the original Windows install disk to work. The image below is my current hard drive data from refit. It's a 3TB drive partitioned for 2TB (OSX ML) and almost 1TB for Windows.
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This may help also:
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=81817
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4375770?start=0&tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4231328?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4272181?start=0&tstart=0
and
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1899
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

How To Install SSD In MacBook Pro?

Hello Apple Experts, I am new to this forum. I have An Apple MacBook Pro Retina 2013. Its very powerful but except its Flash Drive is not very fast and its making my MacBook slow. So to make it faster I want to install an Intel SSD 520 480GB to it. But I am afraid because its a very new and I don't know how to do it. So Can anyone of you help me to do it? Its Greatly Appreciated, Thanks...
My MacBook Specs Are:-
CPU- Intel Core i7 3840QM 2.8GHz
RAM- 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU- NVIDIA Geforce GT 650M
Storage- 750GB Flash Drive
If any other info is required then ask me....
Thanks For Any Help...........

Your slow response of the system could be caused by many different factors. From a corrupted install of the OS to faulty hardware in the system.
The only way to test it is to completely erase the drive, Repartition it, and reinstall the operating system, OS X, and all your programs. If after a Clean install of OS X, and selectively installing your programs one at a time, and testing after each install to find out why the system is running so slow. If right after installing the OS the system is slow to respond then it is likely a hardware problem. If it runs fine then it was a software problem.
If you find it is a hardware problem the only thing to do is take the system to Apple for diagnosis and repair or exchange.
If you find it is a software problem then do not install that piece of software.
Apple990 wrote:
If my Flash Storage is SSD then why is my MacBook so slow, Please help me it takes about 15-20sec to open the Store and other apps also takes more than normal time. Please help I have also Updated My OS X but still the problem persists.

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I need to use microsoft but l need windows to set more easy my docs, please could you help me to find solutions for delate lines and letters back as with windows
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You can use Boot Camp or you can use VMWare/Parallels. You'll have to pay for the latter.
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How many Sapphire Sapphire RADEON R9 270X can i install in my mac pro 2009?

How many of the graphics cards can I install in my mac pro 2009? Sapphire Sapphire RADEON R9 270X
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Why? do you use FCP-X? that will benefit from two. Also gaming in Windows where you can use Crossfire
You have two 6-pin power feeds so you will need a small 450W PSU - those come with two 8-pin and two 6-pin.
Those can often fit in the optical drive bay and cost $25-75 range.
"500W" is NOT for the card! that is the minimum PC PSU only!
when buying look for card that uses only two 6-pin and not an 8-pin power.
75W for the PCIe slot, and 150W from two 6-pin cables, most GPUs fall into the 200-250W at maximum stress levels8-pin is basically two 6-pins and 150W feed
> we CrossFired a pair of Radeon R9 270s in our 2010 Mac Pro tower. Under Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, it registered 145 FPS in the Diablo test.
http://barefeats.com/tube06.html
Keep in mind that the Mac Pro tower can't feed enough power to the dual 980s, dual 290Xs, or dual 7950s.
We used an auxillary power supply to compensate.
For the hard core GPU rendering, there are external expansion boxes with their own power supplies.
In an earlier article, we featured the Cubix Xpander which facilitated the connection of 5 GPUs to the Mac Pro tower.
If you favor an AMD GPU like the Radeon R9 290X, MacVidCards can modify it to run at PCIe 2.0 bandwidth in your Mac Pro tower.
The Sapphire Radeon R9 7950 Mac Edition is available from OWC and TransIntl.
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Things to keep in mind:
The Radeon R9 280X we used was 'un-flashed.' It booted OS X fine but there was no startup screen. Also, when we checked the speed of CPU-to-PCIe-to-CPU communication, it appeared to be running in PCIe 1.0 mode instead of PCIe 2.0. However, unless the GPU intensive app saturates the PCIe 1.0 bandwidth, it will not run any faster in PCIe 2.0 mode. http://barefeats.com/tube12.html
Which is one reason why you might want to buy pre-modified cards from http://www.macvidcards.com

I have Outlook 2011 installed on my Mac Pro, but I can not install it icloud. I can only get through imail, iCal and Address Book in Mac native anyone know teach me how to work with Outlook 2011 icloud? thank you

I have Outlook 2011 installed on my Mac Pro, but I can not install it icloud. I can only get through imail, iCal and Address Book in Mac native anyone know teach me how to work with Outlook 2011 icloud? thank you

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How to delete applications from mac pro?

I think many people struggling at "How to delete appalications from Mac pro ,just because you made some mistakes or curious !" I know it is a bit difficut for people who are new users for the Mac .
If you really don't want them ,you can delete them easily,
As all you know after you download appalications from anywhere ,it could be from apple app store or from other websites. They all can be disspeared if you don't like them .
First , If you installed from apple app store it will be really easily just click at the app on the launchpad, after few seconds all the apps will be all shaking like leaves ,yes they are scared .(No No don't delete me I am helpful !) Ok yes that is a little joke ! so what you can see now there is a small "x" at the top right corner .Can you see them ? just click the "x" And they will gone .
Second step. This is only for you downoaded from other websites , In that case , you just skip first step come to here in order to save you some golden time .
You can delete them from the launchpad , I have tried many times . i tried to drug them in the the trash . But after them all jump back to where they are , So you need to open the Finder ---> click the download -----> find the file which is belong to the app (make sure ) ------->click it -----> drug it into the trash. then you can hear a little sound like you through it into the bin. it is really humanny isn't it ? then go back to the finder again .---->click the application -------> find the icon on there which is you just drag into the trash. do it again . take this one into the trash as well then you will find the icon on the launchpad is disppeared . at the end don't forget to empty your trash After that all job done , it is been deleted ,
Well done !
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How can I upgrade my Mac Pro

Hello,
I have a Mac Pro. Here are the specs :
Mac OS X 10.5.8
MacPro1,1
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
When OS 10.6 came out, I found out that I couldn't upgrade to it because of my graphic card. In the technical specifications it is mentioned that :
OpenCL
requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600
ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
Now, OS 10.5.8 is becoming more and more outdated. I would like to know how can I upgrade my Mac Pro ? What kind of graphic card can I put in ?
Thank you for any help and/or information !

Dalfe wrote:
Hello,
I have a Mac Pro. Here are the specs :
Mac OS X 10.5.8
MacPro1,1
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
When OS 10.6 came out, I found out that I couldn't upgrade to it because of my graphic card. In the technical specifications it is mentioned that :
OpenCL
requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600
ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870
Now, OS 10.5.8 is becoming more and more outdated. I would like to know how can I upgrade my Mac Pro ? What kind of graphic card can I put in ?
Thank you for any help and/or information !
It's been a while since I've used it but I installed Snow Leopard on my old Mac Pro 1,1 with the 7300GT and it worked. OpenCL may not have but the rest of it did. I don't think what you've quoted says you can't upgrade but only that an upgrade won't deliver all of the features in Snow Leopard. Indeed, I was able to move the HD in the 1,1 Mac Pro into the 5,1 Mac Pro, boot from it (10.6.4 is the minimum the 2010 Mac Pro will boot with), clone it and then updated it.

How to install ssd in iMac 2012?

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How is the performance of Mac Pro if i use it as host for windows and linux virtual machines.

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" help me please" I have Windows 7 32 bit installed on my mac pro and Bought Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter to connect to lcd tv But it does not work? why? please help me
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