I need to clone my macbook pro hdd to a ssd, so I can them switch drives. I can do this by booting to Acronis cloning software. I need to know if the thunderbolt is hot at boot up.
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You can boot from a disc in the Thunderbolt sled. Hold the option key at boot and it will find all the boot drives. You select the sled.
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This actually works with any sata drive. The SSD will get hot during the clone operation. That's normal. Takes more power to write flash based memory so more heat is produced. SSD runs cooler during normal boot. Apple cables do not get very hot but all the other cables do. This adapter runs hot all the time reading or writing. With a regular drive add a couple rubber feet to the end to support the drive correctly. This makes a air gap that helps with cooling.
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No. Absolutely ZERO software for cloning, migrating, optimizing, etc.... It's really sad. NO ONE in the industry even comes close to the Samsung SSD Magician software. This is a REALLY FAST SSD though. Faster than the 840 EVO and 840 Pro.... but sometimes the add-in software makes all the difference if you're not technical. In my case, I was able to use Western Digital's branded version of Acronis TrueImage for free b/c my original boot from which I migrated was a 1TB WD Green drive.
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Thanks, I got this hard drive about a month ago and it has been working perfectly. I used the free trial of Acronis True Image 2010 to clone the drive. Now I have this drive and my old 320GB 54K for a backup drive!
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You *should* be able to provided you set it up that way. Format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and, partition is with the GUID Partition Scheme. After that, use CarbonCopyCloner or your other favorite copy SW to clone your entire system to the external drive. You can boot by either choosing the external drive in System Preferences &gt; Startup Disk or simply hit the Option key during boot up as that will show you the bootable disks available - choose the external drive. It may be possible to do a clean install onto the Thunderbolt drive by choosing it during a fresh system install but you'd need to have Mavericks or Mountain Lion on a Thumb drive or something and as you install, choose the Thunderbolt drive as your destination drive during install (bypass the internal Mac drive completely).
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Well you probably should not have chosen this drive. It's not trivial to connect it to a Mac. This drive is primarily designed as an internal PC drive. Depending on the ports available on your Macbook, the best way to connect this drive is to get a drive enclosure that holds a SATA drive and has an external connector for firewire or USB. I think a newer Macbook has only thunderbolt and USB.
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this is the cord that connects an SSD to the mac. SSD's do not overheat. there is no moving parts.
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I agree with P. Brockhaus. SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner are great ways to make bootable clones of your existing Mac disk to a SSD. You don't really need to do a 'clean install' but you can if you want. I've installed SSDs in three Mac Minis and a MacBook Pro w/o doing a 'clean install' with no issues at all. Carbon Copy Cloner will also create and install the hidden Recovery partition onto your new SSD. SuperDuper will not. However, if you make regular bootable backups (which you should!), the Recovery partition becomes less important. If you're the type who never backs up, I would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner for your new SSD installation as this will also put the Recovery partition on your SSD.... but your Recovery partition is not a substitute for regular backups! Regardless of how you install your new SSD, it is important to backup regularly. I find user interface on SuperDuper to be more intuitive and friendlier, but of course that's a judgement call and personal preference. The free version of SuperDuper does the 'basics' but the paid-for version unlocks some very useful features for scheduling and automating unattended bootable backups. It's reasonably priced and worth the money IMHO. Good luck!
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Simple answer, yes. I did a lot of research before buying this item, and I own a 2008 Macbook Pro. I bought Carbon copy cloner, cloned my hard drive, swapped the new drive in, and downloaded and installed a free trim enabler program, it actually was pretty easy, oh and I already had a external hard drive enclosure wich made cloning my drive easy. And it has been working great, glad I did it.I had read lots of other reviews from Mac owners, most saying they were glad they did it as well. if you do a google search, theres lots of information and even some videos showing you step by step. Check out OWC other world computing , but stick with this ssd rated very well.
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If your MBP has thunderbolt ports, yes. I would run the 2big in its native RAID0 mode to get more speed out of it, and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone it out to a RAID1 unit or some other redundant backup plan.
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SSD would fit on the thunderbolt connector. Not sure about opening the drive though
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nope, but I play from a boot camped imac through a thunderbolt drive. I even enabled the whole 60fps hack, it works fine but the system does get hot. Even by itself windows runs hotter on a boot camp set up than normal OS does.
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.
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I would not buy this item. The drive is one of the slowest thunderbolts out there. The drives are not user serviceable. If a drive fails u need to send it in. I experienced cooling issues with this unit as well.
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Hi there, I do not think so, Apple has used a certain type of connector, look up OWC ssd upgrades they should have info on Mac ssd upgrades
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If you clone the drive then you are moving everything from the host drive. If you have the OS DVD then you could do a clean install and have just the OS on the ssd
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I have this unit daisy chained to 2 thunderbolt drives from my mbp. Love the seagate unit though I have heard that constant switching of ssd units takes a toll in the ssd connectors. I should think you could daisy chain a monitor through something like a black magic mini recorder which I also love or... Get a thunderbolt hub. Jim gurney
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Mark, the only way I use Acronis is to clone the entire C drive to an external/portable drive. If I have a problem/crash/corruption, then I clone back. I suppose you could connect the clone (via usb) again and do an explorer search for individual files. Hope it helps. V