Thanks all... What is TRIM? I've Googled it but you guys are better! ;)
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:25:15 AM UTC+1, macservice wrote: > > Last one I did was a Western Digital 1tb Scorpio Blue. Initially I thought > it was a faulty drive. I mounted it in a USB 3.0 enclosure to clone which > worked fine but when it was mounted inside the laptop, it wasn't > recognised. I then tried it in a USB 2.0 to SATA bridge and got the same > result. RMA'd it and the same happened with the replacement. > > Spoke to WD TS and they suggested mounting, formatting and cloning in the > computer. It worked fine. I've yet to find a reason why. > > On another, general note, TRIM on non-Apple SSDs isn't supported in 10.6, > 10.7 or 10.8 but this little Application enables it: > http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322 > > *Chris Webb .* Principal > *MacService* > Woodside, Brightling Road > Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL > t: 01580 881212 > f: 01580 881313 > m: 07770 960632 > e: [email protected] <javascript:> > w: www.macservice.co.uk > facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk > > > > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 10:00, Sam - MacAmbulance > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I've never had a problem formatting and cloning any drive over 1tb > externally. I do all my drive cloning with external eSATA drive docks > though not USB, perhaps that's it? > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] <javascript:> > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:52, Chris Webb <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Crucial (www.crucial.com/uk) are selling a Crucial 256gb M4 for £124.00 - > just put one in my 15" MBP - WOW! It came with the latest firmware > installed so didn't need an upgrade. > > Swap the disks and put the old internal in an external box, boot from that > disk then do the clone - much more reliable. Probably won't make much > difference with a 256gb disk but 1tb disks don't like to be > partitioned/formatted/cloned outside them machine then installed, dunno > why, they just don't. > > *Chris Webb .* Principal > *MacService* > Woodside, Brightling Road > Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL > t: 01580 881212 > f: 01580 881313 > m: 07770 960632 > e: [email protected] <javascript:> > w: www.macservice.co.uk > facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk > > > > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:15, Tony Crooks <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > I've replaced hard drives with SSD on two MacBooks and it is easy enough. > > If you get an USB enclosure you can put the 320GB drive in it and use it > as an external drive after cloning the disk to an SSD. > > www.dabs.com are selling the 256GB Crucial M4 SSD for £140 this week > > Improved startup speed, reduced app loading times and all round snappiness > made it a worthwhile investment for me. > > Regards, > > Tony > Sent from my iPhone > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:04, Sam - MacAmbulance > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Normally it's just a case of putting the SSD into an external USB > enclosure (£5 from ebay) then using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to > clone all the data across. You can enable TRIM afterwards. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/smug/-/hnBCSO62idcJ. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
