Hi Peter, My first thoughts were Upgrade the MBP to High Sierra to test there are no conflicts or problems before installing the SSD mainly because when you install the SSD in High Sierra it will change the Mac OS extended format to APFS on the SSD Drive.
But, I’m hesitant to suggest you do as I’m not really sure which way I would go? I would prefer you ask Daniel of MacWizardry as he is the expert on this as he is doing it all the time. APFS, or “Apple File System,” is one of the new features in macOS High Sierra. It’s optimized for solid state drives (SSDs) and other all-flash storage devices, though it will also work on mechanical and hybrid drives. Mac OS Extended, also known as HFS Plus or HFS+, is the file system used on all Macs from 1998 until now. On macOS High Sierra, it’s used on all mechanical and hybrid drives, and older versions of macOS used it by default for all drives. Something for you to think about anyway, but I would suggest you contact Daniel first to be sure. Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 5 Aug 2018, at 9:02 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi, my wife’s MBP 2011 (El Capitan) is very slow. It has a 500GB HDD and 4GB > RAM. As per two seperate prior upgrades I’ve successfully done to my two sons > MBP’s, I’ve ordered her a 500GB SSD and 2 X 4GB RAM cards. This will speed it > up quite a bit. > > I run backups all the time (Time Machine) and wonder if I should do the > upgrade to High Sierra prior to doing the migration to SSD or after. > > Any tips and other advice before I proceed on this, probably next weekend. > > > > Regards > > > Pete > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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