Replacing a ssd with a sshd?

Can the stock ssd on a new MacBook pro 15.4" with retina be replaced with a hybrid ssd (Sshd)? I want upgrade mine. Also if it can will it void the warranty?
THanks for the help!

I forgot to mention that my next upgrade will be to install the Seagate 1.0TB Solid State Hybrid Hard Disk Drive in the optical drive. Below are the specs.
2.5-Inch | SATA 6.0Gb/s | 5400RPM | 64MB Cache

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I have an HP Envy 700-215xt and need faster and more storage so I purchased a 4TB SSHD to replace the 1TB HD. But I could not copy the original HD to the SSHD by using Seagate DiscWizard. Acronis Cloning Software could not too because the main hard drive is not detected (inactive), it may be blocked by something? How to clone the drive? Thank you!
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Replace dvd drive with SSD

I am thinking about removing the dvd drive in my macbook pro 15" and putting in a SSD drive. Then create a fusion drive using both the existing harddrive and the new ssd.
What is recomended?
1) Swapping the hd to the dvd and putting the ssd in the existing hds place.
2) Or just replace the ssd with the dvd-drive? Leaving the HD where its at.

MacBook Pro's, for some reason, like the boot drive in the 'original' HD location. I have no idea if this would be the case with a DIY 'fusion' drive, however.
You may want to actually call OWC to see what they recommend (and, if you're going to replace the optical drive, you simply can't so better than the OWC Data Doubler)...
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Replacing W701 SSD primary drive

It's 3 and a half years old but there were problems with it since it was about 8 months old. It has finally gotten to the point where it needs to be replaced. From the Lenovo site this appears to be a drive that would work. http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-73173
Unfortunately it has been amazingly difficult to even find out the price of it and another drive I'm considering. It's taken about 8 phone calls so far. Out of the last 3 (after going through the menu options), 2 disconnected and the third one finally said 'I'm sorry, your call did not go through. Please try again.'
I have a preference for a Samsung drive anyway, this one: http://www.staples.ca/en/Samsung-840-PRO-256GB-25-SATA3-Internal-SSD/product_167664_2-CA_1_20001 (That one is from staples.ca in Canada, but they probably have it State side as well.)
It has a 5 year warranty compared to 90 days from Lenovo, and a decent name. The problem is that if you look at the first drive I linked to, it has thin edges, and the carriage, caddy, or holder for it looks like mine. The Samsung drive wouldn't fit it.
I've been Googling and read stories of people making duct tape (or whatever) bumpers and spacers to hold drives in place, and they have worked. I guess I'll try that as a last resort, but I wondered if anyone here had something that might work. Even if it's not a complete solution, it might spark another idea.
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Just thought I'd post the happy ending to this. I did replace the SSD with a 7 mm Samsung SSD, and it's working beautifully. It has a 3 year warranty. The rubber pieces from the Lenovo drive didn't exactly fit, but with a bit of muscle they did the job.
I'm really glad this worked out. It's my favorite computer again. I don't think they even make 16:10 screens any more, and I appreciate that. Hope everything else holds up and I get to use this for a few years to come.

Do I have all the parts to replace my HDD with a new SSD on my Macbook (late 2008)?

Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out if have all the parts to replace my hdd with a new ssd on my macbook (late 2008 aluminum).
I just bought a crucial mx100 SSD and plan on replacing my mac HDD. I have the appropriate screwdrivers, and a bootable OSX on a usb drive. I also purchased a sabrent usb 2.0 to sata/ide hard drive adapter.
How do I replace and install OSX on my new SSD?
From what I read here are the steps I'm planning on taking.
1) Detach the old HDD
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3) Turn on computer and use the bootable usb drive to install OS X.
Does that work, I think I read somewhere about maybe formatting the SSD before I can use the bootable usb. Any input or help would be awesome. Thanks.
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Hi Bradtk24,
On this site you will find the requirements for the physical change that you want to make.
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Replacing SSD with hard disk drive on Qosmio X505-Q880

Is it possible to replace the SSD drive in a Qosmio X505-Q880 with a hard disk drive? If so what type will work?
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Want to replace stock HDD with a 256GB SSD, have questions.

Hi All,
I am sure this has been asked a bunch of times, so forgive me if I ask again...
I have a late 2010 MBP (Model A1278). Currently the machine has 4gb of memory and a 256gb hard drive on it. The machine is starting to show its age and is slowing down considerably, so I was thinking of upgrading the memory to the max allowable 8gb, and swapping out the HDD with a nice 256gb SSD. What I am looking to find out is if I have daily time machine backups, can I just swap out the drives, reboot the machine into recovery mode and then select a TM backup to restore to this new drive?
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7. Select backup date
8. Restore finished.
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10. Enjoy a slightly faster laptop
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Unless you purchase your SSD from OWC your drive will have to be partitioned first. The OWC SSDs I've bought have already been partitioned and formatted for the Mac. Either way, unless you have another boot drive, you'll have to boot your computer with Internet recovery since you won't have a recovery partition until you've install the operating system. Here's how I've swapped out my hard drives for SSDs
place the SSD in an enclosure
I've always had an enclosure or bought one when I got the SSD so I could make the old internal drive into an external drive.
I typically use this new external drive as a clone backup for my computer
run Disk Utility to partition the drive
The trick is to delete the current single partition
Then click on the + symbol to make a new partition (GUID)
Format the drive
Download and install OS XThis will create the recovery partition
Swap out the SSD for the old HHD and reboot
While the computer boots put the old HHD in the external enclosure and plug it into the computer
Go thru the new owner setup and when asked if you want to setup the new computer say yes and choose the external as the sourceYou could also use the TimeMachine backup as your source but I find this is a bit slower than using the external drive
Depending on what software you have you may need to enter some serial numbers.

Hi,I have recently replaced by hard drive with a ssd. My old hard drive has all my iTunes stuff.i would like to install only iTunes programme on the ssd with all the content on the old hard drive. How do I do it?

Hi,I have recently replaced by hard drive with a ssd. My old hard drive has all my iTunes stuff.i would like to install only iTunes programme on the ssd with all the content on the old hard drive. How do I do it?

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Lessons learned replacing ThinkPad HDD with an SSD

Installing a Samsung SSD on my 3 year old ThinkPad W510 was easy. Getting Windows 7 set up took me days.
Here are some lessons learned so you can do it faster.
Backup
Lenovo Rescue & Recovery will back up files to a USB 3.0 disk but it took 10+ hours and it put several files and folders at the top level. Can it back up multiple disks (HDD and SSD)? Probably not.
Backup
Windows 7 Backup & Restore doesn’t have those problems backing up data files but when trying to save a disk image to an external drive that’s > 2 TB (with 4K blocks), it runs for a while then fails. The generic error message and event log are not helpful, costing hours of debugging.
SSD “frozen”
Some web sites say that an SSD will perform better if you fully erase it before installing the OS, but when I tried to do this, the Samsung Magician software said the SSD was “frozen.” Apparently this is a confusing way to say it’s locked from erasure. Magician’s workaround recommendations didn’t help. Magician’s PDF guide has alternate workaround recommendations (like turning of AHCI mode in BIOS) but I didn’t find them soon enough.
Clone the HDD or install fresh?
Restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image onto the SSD (instead of cloning the HDD) fixed accumulated problems but it took several days of work and problem solving. (The HDD’s hidden SYSTEM_DRV partition was full. Did that cause some of the problems?)
How to over-provision the SSD
“Over-provisioning” boosts an SSD’s sustained write performance by allocating temporary space. The Samsung Magician program will set this up -- but not on a drive with the Lenovo_Recovery “Q:” partition. Moving and resizing C: and Q: with GParted Live didn’t solve this. Instead it made me start all over restoring the factory disk image and the Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates. The solution (thanks, Samsung’s phone tech support!) is to use GParted or Windows Disk Management to shrink the C: partition. All it needs is some unallocated space between partitions anywhere on the SSD. (Samsung recommends 10%.) You don’t have to do anything to allocate that space to the purpose.
Partition alignment
For speed, you want the partitions aligned on a 4096 byte boundary. GParted will align them on a MiB boundary, which is more than adequate.
Windows restore points
The Windows installer is supposed to make system restore points but I found it started out with a broken configuration. So open System Properties, the System Protection tab, and check the “available drives” for any drives labelled “... (Missing)”. Turn off “system protection” (restore points) for the “missing” drives, then turn it on for the real C:.
Faster updates
After restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image, you must iterate installing Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates over and over until there aren’t any more to install. Fortunately this is faster on an SSD than an HDD. Save more time by having only one user account and no password so Windows reboot won’t stop for login. Also watch the taskbar for license dialogs that open up behind other windows but require your clicks to proceed.
Watch for stuck updates
Lenovo Update quietly gets stuck updating Intel WiFi & WiMax software. The fix is to download those installers from lenovo.com, run them, get an error message that it can’t install over the existing software, uninstall the WiFi & WiMax software, then run the installers again.
Restore from backup, or not?
At key points, I made system disk image backups of the SSD to the old HDD and tried restoring from a backup after the failed repartitioning experiment. But Windows Backup and Restore won’t restore a system image after booting from the destination drive’s recovery partition nor from the source drive’s recovery partition. Since my backup was on the HDD in the Ultradrive bay, I couldn’t boot from the Rescue & Recovery CD. The workaround was to make a bootable System Repair disk on a 512 MB USB key. Windows Backup and Restore then failed with another meaningless error, “The parameter is incorrect. Code: 0x80070057.” Apparently you have to remove the USB key right before starting the system restore operation but that yielded the error, "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." I’m not sure if that’s a symptom of removing the USB key or yet another problem with Windows Backup and Restore. Maybe it can’t restore to resized partitions? Windows Backup and Restore failed and burned hours of my time.
Fix the annoying request on bootup?
After you install Windows, all its updates, and Samsung Magician, you can use Magician to adjust system settings for SSD performance. Then you’ll find that Magician needs permission to “make changes to this computer” on every boot. Samsung tech support explained that you can then remove Magician from the startup list via msconfig.
Optimizations
Recomputing the “Windows Experience Index” might make the OS recognize the boot drive as an SSD and disable defrag for it. This didn’t work for me, so be sure to unschedule defrag. Also use msconfig to remove Digital Line Detect from the startup list and turn on “No GUI boot” (no Windows splash screen). Also use power plans Advanced Settings to never turn off the “hard disk.”
ThinkPad
Thumbs up. Easy to replace the HDD with an SSD and move the HDD into an Ultradrive caddy. Sturdy. Easy to work on. Well documented. Hardware that I didn't want to replace.
Microsoft Windows 7
Thumbs down. Buggy, fragile, over complicated, inadequate error messages, painstaking to install, difficult and time consuming to administer, poorly documented, accumulates gunk over time that causes problems, failed backup software, even a fresh install has scary event log errors.
Lenovo forums & support pages
Very helpful. Sometimes it's good to use Use Google to search them e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alenovo.com+"over+provision"
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Fine hardware. Some confusions around the Magician software. Great phone tech support. Web support doesn’t work.
References and more info
How To Geek, Lifehacker, Lifehacker, SSD Review, Newegg, Newegg, Anandtech, Storage Review.

I may have confused you: Lenovo provides two tools, 1) one makes DVDs that restore the original out-of-the-box factory image of the entire disk (i.e. System partition, C: + Q: partitions) and 2) Backup and Restore, which is the Lenovo user backup tool that does conventional full disk backups, i.e. with all user customizations, added programs and files. Since my system-generation-to-SSD saga hadn't created the the Q: partition correctly, my only alternative was to create a full up-t-date disk backup with the second Backup and Restore tool that include all the Windows + Lenovo updates, but didn't include extra programs and my user files. This fitted on 5 DVDs, which I will use if ever I reinstall the entire operating system.
Once you get above 100-150 GB of backup volume (I'm at 450 GB right now), the Lenovo Backup and Restore is very slow, so I use the much quicker Windows built-in Backup and Restore program to backup incrementally a system image and all files.

Replacing T420s HDD with a new SSD

Hello,
I wonderd if It is possible to replace the HDD with a new SSD, while placing the HDD in the Ultra-Bay slot.
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Corsair Neutron Series 120GB SSD Sata III MLC 2.5 Inch Retail
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Corsair Force Series 3 Notebook Update Kit 120GB SATA III(6Gb/s) SSD Details :
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Max Sequential R/W (ATTO)550 MB/s sequential read — 510 MB/s sequential write
Max Random 4k Write (IOMeter 08)85k IOPS (4k aligned)
InterfaceSATA 6Gb/s
TechnologyAsynchronous NAND
Form Factor 7mm high, 2.5 inch
DRAM Cache Memory No
Weight80g
Voltage5V ±5%
Power Consumption (active)2.0W Max
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S.M.A.R.T. SupportYes
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Neutron Series 120GB SSD :
WarrantyFive years
SSD Unformatted Capacity120 GB
Max Sequential R/W (ATTO)555 MB/s sequential read — 211 MB/s sequential write
Max Random 4k Write (IOMeter 08)85k IOPS (4k aligned)
InterfaceSATA 6Gb/s
TechnologyNo
Form Factor2.5 inch
DRAM Cache MemoryNo
Weight.1kg
Voltage5V ±5%
Power Consumption (active)4.6W Max
Power Consumption (idle/standby/sleep)0.6W Max
S.M.A.R.T. SupportYes
Shock1500 G
MTBF2,000,000 hours
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A600 Replacing SATA HDD with SATA SSD

I have reviewed the current knowledge base materials, but don't see one directly tied to my problem. Appreciate any help received.
My current HDD has been making a lot of noise lately, at least much more than I have heard in the past. It's a little over 5 years old. I bought an Intel 730 series 240G SSD, and have tried to use that drive as my primary drive, replacing the current one. I used Intel's cloning software, which took a while, but appeared to be successful. My problem is that the BIOS does not recognize the new drive. Looking in the BIOS, my SATA drive 0 now shows "None", and the screen at power-up fails with "No Boot Filename received". Is there an issue with the BIOS not recognizing newer SSD's? I've read other inputs saying that people have been successful in powering up via new SSDs, so I thought it could be done. Anyone have any thoughts? Appreciate it.

Thanks Caveman31 for your thoughts. I checked the BIOS, and this model has very limited BIOS options, which don't include any options for SATA control. There are probably 1/2 of the options in my Lenovo A600 BIOS, then in my generic PC (ASUS motherboard) I put together a couple years ago. It has a menu option for SATA control, located in the "Main" tab of the BIOS screen.
Unless there are some other options, or a way to get more control with this BIOS, I won't be able to select between AHCI or IDE regarding the SATA control. Do you know if that's the only way for me to replace my HDD with a SSD for this computer?
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Can I replace my HD with a SSD?

I just got an ad in my email. I can get a 12GB SSD with up to 559 MB/Sec speed for $155.
Can I replace the HD in my iMac with such a drive?
I might then get an external enclosure for the original drive.

SimonJester753 wrote:
I just got an ad in my email. I can get a 12GB SSD with up to 559 MB/Sec speed for $155.
Can I replace the HD in my iMac with such a drive?
I might then get an external enclosure for the original drive.
A 12GB drive is to small you need at least a 250GB drive. You'll never see a speed of 559 MB/Sec. Maybe, 100 MB/Sec... file transfer (copying) speed.

Fail to enter bootcamp win7 after replacing CD-Ron with SSD

I replaced CD-Ron with SSD.
I successfully enter mac on both HD and SSD, failed with enter win7 on HD.
It stops at black screen and a write bar shining on the corner.
Is it because the windows system can't find my CD-Ron?Then how?
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So I try booting without the DVD player attached, and there is no Windows option or startup item.
I try booting with the DVD plugged in, but without the USB attached, and I get the Windows DVD to show as a start up option: I click it and it sits with a black screen and the blinking prompt.
I am seriously at a loss here folks. What the heck.
The machine sees the DVD.
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Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 EFI System (FAT)
2         409640    975835479 Unknown
3      975835480    977105023 Mac OS X Boot
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1              1    977105059 ee EFI Protective
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Boot Code: None
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Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
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Boot Code: None
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Replacing optical drive with SSD and HD with new HD

Hi folks, recently my macbook pro unibody's (2011) hard drive started encountering some fatal errors. I've gone through all possible fixes, and it looks like the only option left is to replace the HDD. As much as this initially bummed me out, I'm a little excited about the prospect now. I think I would like to go ahead and replace the optical drive with a SSD while I have the computer open to replace the HDD. This will breathe some serious new life into my macbook pro.
My question is, which SSD's and HDD's are compatible with the macbook and which brands do you guys (the community) recommend? Should I upgrade my ram while I'm in there? How difficult of a job is this? I am mechanically inclined but I have much more experience working on tractors than electronics. Thanks for any advice or input you can offer!

Go to OWC to get the Data Doubler bracket for your model. You can also find HDDs and SSDs there. Be sure to put the SSD where the HDD is located and put the HDD in the optical drive bay. Upgrading RAM is always a good idea. I've done all these in my 2011 MBP. OWC also provides tools needed and online video tutorials.
For optimum use of this combo only install OS X on the SSD. Install everything else on the HDD. Then follow these instructions for setting it up to have the computer boot from the SSD but use your Home folder that is on the HDD:
How to use an SSD with your HDD
If you are going to use an SSD as a boot drive together with your existing HDD as the "data" drive, here's what you can do.
After installing the SSD you will need to partition and format the SSD using Disk Utility. Then, install OS X on the SSD. After OS X has been installed boot from the SSD. Use Startup Disk preferences to set the SSD as the startup volume.
Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu. You will see a field labeled "Home dir:" At the right end you will see a Change button. Click on it. In the file dialog locate the Home folder now located on the HDD (HDD/Users/account_name/.) Select the folder, click on Open button. Restart the computer as directed.
When the computer boots up it will now be using the Home folder located on the HDD.
Another more technical method involving the Terminal and aliases is discussed in depth here: Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup - Matt Gemmell. This is my preferred approach because I can select which of the Home's folders I want on the HDD and which I don't want. For example, I like to keep the Documents and Library folders on the SSD because I access their content frequently.
Be sure you retain the fully bootable system on your HDD in case you ever need it.
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